ISRAEL: MILITARY PARADE STAGED TO CELEBRATE JERUSALEM DAY

Natural Sound Israel on Sunday staged its biggest military parade in years to commemorate the capture of the city s eastern sector in the 1967 sixday war. Palestinians, who want east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, condemned the day s festivities as a provocation. A top Palestinian official angrily criticised a US congressional delegation of leading politicians for what he called efforts to influence the city s status. Thousands of Israeli paratroopers, pilots and sailors