Beit Hanina
An Israeli news site, Ynetnews.com, reported on 27 February 2014 on a report by the Palestinian newspaper "Al-Quds" that claimed that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry offered in his discussions with Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, to make Beit Hanina the capital of a future Palestinian state. According to "Al-Quds," Kerry demanded Abbas to officially recognize Israel as a Jewish state and offered that Beit Hanina neighborhood will be declared as the Palestinian capital instead of the entire east Jerusalem area.