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The Israeli government would be pleased with East Jerusalem Palestinian electoral participation . . . as long as turnout remained limited

• The team portraying the Israeli government emphasized that electing a small number of Palestinian council members would be a public relations coup more than anything else.
• If projected turnout was very high, however, the team portraying the Israeli government acknowledged that it would have considered different policies to depress turnout.

East Jerusalem Palestinians focused on bread-and-butter issues

• The team portraying East Jerusalem Palestinians in both scenarios opted to run a party focused on economic and social issues rather than political or nationalist ones, despite pressure to adopt a more nationalist platform.

Palestinian city councilors could only affect policy at a low level

• Councilors could effect changes at the local level — daily municipal service provision issues — but would be largely powerless on big-picture issues having to do with fundamental questions about the future of the city.