Divided Jerusalem 2nd Edition: The Struggle for the Holy City
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, 2002
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In this timely book, Bernard Wasserstein offers the first authoritative history of the fraught diplomatic relations surrounding the Holy City of Jerusalem. Jews, Muslims, and Christians have all claimed the city as their own over the centuries--as have a dizzying array of foreign nations. In the period between the founding of the city and its capture by Israelis in 1967, Jerusalem has been conquered at least thirty-seven times. No other town, wrote Arthur Koestler in 1948, has caused such continuous waves of killing, rape, and unholy misery over the centuries as the Holy City. Today, Jerusalem lies at the core of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It is the most deeply divided capital city in the world: its Arab and Jewish residents inhabit different districts, speak different languages, attend different schools, read different newspapers, observe different holy days--live, in almost every significant respect, different lives. Against the background of renewed violence in and around Jerusalem, this book explores the complicated origins of the current diplomatic impasse. Why is the question of Jerusalem so intractable? Why has it outlasted almost every other political dispute as a focus for diplomatic wrangling and collective violence? And what are the prospects for resolution? Meticulously researched, and written with humanity and elegance, this book offers an illuminating contribution to the effort to achieve a lasting negotiated settlement of a tragic conflict that affects us all.…
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- Title
- Divided Jerusalem 2nd Edition: The Struggle for the Holy City
- Author
- Bernard Wasserstein
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300097301
- ISBN 13
- 9780300097306
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
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The Holy City, he believes, is at the core of the Arab-Israeli relationship. Although prospects for a settlement look bleaker today than for many years, Wasserstein believes that the current violence cannot prevent a long term-solution. And for that solution, he sees the best hope of success in aspects of the draft final-status agreement reached, on October 31, 1995, between then Israeli deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and scuppered only four days later by the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
While leaving many key questions unanswered, the so-called Beilin-Abu Mazin agreement (incorporating Abbas' nom de guerre) attempted to settle all outstanding issues between the Israelis and Palestinians and--most crucially--came close to providing a blueprint for solving the Jerusalem problem. Detailing its main points over several pages, Wasserstein describes the agreement as "a surprising achievement" and adds: "We cannot now know whether [it] could have turned into a final peace treaty. Yet the experience of its negotiators in relation to the Oslo Agreement, which had also started out as a similar back-channel document, gave them some ground for optimism." Whether its findings can be resurrected, and the optimism realised, only time will tell.-- Meir Persoff
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