JERUSALEM -- The question seemed simple enough: Would President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority like to go to Safed, the city in northern Israel where he was born in 1935? But there are no easy questions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mr. Abbas' answer, in an interview broadcast on Israeli television Friday night -- yes, he would like to visit, but not to live there; Safed is part of Israel -- was widely interpreted as a surprising concession on the demands of Palestinians to return to their pre-1948 homes, perhaps the most intractable and emotional of all the unsettled issues in the decades-old dispute. The remark set off angry protests across the Gaza Strip, in which...
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