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 six-day 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 U-S congressional delegation of leading politicians for what he called efforts to influence the city’s status. Thousands of Israeli paratroopers, pilots and sailors -