Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will begin on Wednesday as agreed during the Annapolis conference.  Negotiating teams will meet in the King David hotel in Jerusalem.  PA officials have asked for the meeting to be low profile, with no photos, due to IDF operations in Gaza.

PA negotiators are expected to ask that separate negotiating teams be created to discuss various “core issues” such as the status of Jerusalem.  Israeli officials have objected to the plan.  The PA team is also expected to demand that Israel stop construction in the rapidly growing Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa.