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

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The biggest concern I have is whether the design skews (har har) to a completely different type of uniformity or sacrifices too much function for form.

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But, as opinion polls have found, and Mr Netanyahu apparently missed, a good half of the country was uncomfortable with his decision to exercise that claim right now, at Har Homa, in the teeth of Palestinian, other Arab and international opposition.

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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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On Sunday, a spokesman for Israeli Housing Minister Zeev Boim told CNN that his office will take steps this week that could lead to the construction of 121 houses in Har Homa and 763 houses in Pisgat Zeev.

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At the closing bell, ORI is up about 0.1%, while HAR is off about 0.8% on the day Wednesday.

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