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2008.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In the wake of the June 1967 war Israel annexed Jordanian Jerusalem and adjoining territories, creating a single municipality with a large Palestinian Arab minority. After forty years Jerusalem is still a frontier city. In this article I show how and why Israel failed to achieve its goal to unite the Palestinian and Israeli cities. Consequently Israel developed several strategies to overcome her failure, ignoring the inability to achieve the unachievable goal. Therefore I argue for accepting the unavoidable partition of the city into separate Palestinian and Israeli municipalities due to its social, economic, and geographic realities.
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