Our plan was to take a six-day jaunt along the Har Ki Doon Trail, a 50-mile round-trip said to be ideally suited to the fair-weather trekker.

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The potential explosiveness of Har Homa is that it pre-empts that decision, even before the talks begin.

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"We are looking at seven million customers in the first five years and this is a very conservative figure, " said Etisalat senior vice-president Obaid Saeed Bin Mes'har.

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Kayak ( KYAK) is in the same boat (har har) and discussed this at length in its S-1.

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Mr Netanyahu's decision to create Har Homa on the outskirts of East Jerusalem is intolerable to the Palestinians because they see it as pre-empting future negotiations on the city's status.

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