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Succinct historical overview of the struggle for control of Jerusalem. Based on the author's lecture at CCAS's April 1996 symposium, "Arab Jerusalem

Sozialgeschichtliche Daten über Jerusalem zeigen, dass das 1948er "Arab Jerusalem" keineswegs auf den Teil der Stadt beschränkt ist, der 1967 von Israel besetzt wurde und über den in den Verhandlungen über den endgültigen Status der palästinensischen Gebiete entschieden werden soll. Eine Korrektur dieser räumlichen Dimension hat Implikationen für die Verhandlungspositionen sowohl in der Jerusalemfrage wie auch in der Flüchtlingsfrage. (DÜI-Hns)

Encyclopedias of psychology cite a type of religious psychosis known as the Jerusalem Syndrome, which can be triggered by a visit to the city. Symptoms can include bellowing liturgical songs, delivering moralistic sermons and an intensified concern with cleanliness and ritual purity. Though similar reactions have been recorded at other holy cities, notably Rome and Mecca, Jerusalem holds the record for this psychopathology. From the point of view of any normal urban logic, however, the city itself appears crazier still. Its boundaries extend far beyond its core population centres, encompassing dozens of villages, barren hilltops, orchards and tracts of desert, as well as new-build suburbs with scant relation to the historical city; in the north, they stretch up, like a long middle finger, nearly to Ramallah, to take in the old Qalandia airport, some 10 kilometres from the Old City walls, and bulge down almost to Bethlehem in the south. But if the cityscape of Jerusalem has no decipherable urban logic, what rationality has shaped its growth? In Benvenistis view, it all started from the post-1967 municipal borders and the famous principle of maximum square kilometres of land and minimum number of Arabs. There is much to be said for this hypothesis; but we will have to begin a little earlier than that. Adapted from the source document.

Award-winning journalist and author Nir Baram spent a year and a half travelling around the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In this fascinating recount of that journey, Baram navigates the conflict-ridden regions and hostile terrain to speak with a wide range of people, among them Palestinian-Israeli citizens trapped behind the separation wall in Jerusalem and Jewish settlers determined to forge new lives on the West Bank. Baram also talks to children on Kibbutz Nirim who lived through the war in Gaza, and ex-prisoners from Fatah who, after spending years detained in Israeli jails, are now promoting a peace initiative. And he returns again and again to Jerusalem, city of his birth, where a hushed civil war is in full swing. A Land Without Borders is a clear-eyed, compassionate and essential guide to understanding a complex reality; a perceptive and sensitive exploration of a labyrinthine conflict and the experiences of the people ensnared in it, by one of the most distinctive writers working in Israel today