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149804
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The status of Jerusalem is the biggest challenge in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is in Jerusalem where we will determine whether peace can be a reality.
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ID:
149815
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ID:
149813
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When in May 2014, three men joined in an emotional embrace in front of the Western Wall, witnesses of the scene heard them say in Spanish: "We made it." These three people were Rabbi Abraham Skorka; Omar Abboud, the Argentinian Muslim leader; and Pope Francis, in an act that culminated his first official visit to the Holy Land. Their cry of triumph represented before the eyes of the whole world the realization of an old dream, one fuelled by the friendship of the three men in Buenos Aires, and which offers the best formula for overcoming the nightmare of religious confrontations: respect and warmth among people of good will.
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149810
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Among possible future scenarios for the future of the Old City, some predict escalating conflict; some project passivity on one or both sides, leading to deterioration in the realities of the Old City; and others offer the prospect of an international regime — with varying forms of interaction between it and the two parties.
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ID:
149809
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The Ramat Shlomo neighborhood is just one more neighborhood (beyond the Green Line) in Jerusalem. From its hilltop location, one can view the north of the city. While for the average Israeli this view may be nothing unusual — some open expanses, a few neighborhoods — in fact, from the observation point from Tzaddik M’Stefanest Street, one can observe the myriad ways in which Israel is driving Palestinians out of the city.
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ID:
149805
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The period from the 1940s to the 1970s was one of decolonization and self-determination for many countries in Asia and Africa. An immense amount of academic and intellectual writings about colonialism, neocolonialism as well as settler colonialism accompanied that process of decolonization. At the same time, the United Nations released several resolutions and documents condemning colonialism and seeking the immediate fulfillment of the right to self-determination for all peoples living under colonial rule. The most famous among these resolutions is the 1960 UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.
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149812
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ID:
149808
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Sitting on the edges of Mount Scopus or the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem, you can get a clear view of the Old City, away from its chaos and its people. From those spots one can only wonder how a city that is full of love and hatred can look so peaceful, if only from a distance. The closer one gets to the city’s complicated reality, the farther one would like to escape. Yet, Jerusalem is not a city one can escape from, especially not the Palestinians. Jerusalem is where their heart and soul is, and not only because of its religious sites - it is where their national identity rose.
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ID:
149814
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The disturbances that have raged in East Jerusalem in recent years and which sporadically continue to this day are unlikely to surprise anyone following the situation in the city or anyone who is attentive to the voices emanating from it. These disturbances are proof that Jerusalem is a non-city. Without a common foundation for all of its citizens which binds the different communities in West and East Jerusalem together, and without a joint vision for the city, Jerusalem cannot be a normal city; therefore, the only way to define it is as a non-city. Political scientist Jerome Bruner says that there are three things that are necessary to create a functioning social system: 1) shared meanings; 2) shared concepts; and 3) shared modalities. All three conditions are necessary to ensure communication — which, in turn, enables the reconciliation of misunderstandings and different interpretations connected to everyday life.1 None of those three conditions exist today in Jerusalem.
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ID:
149816
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ID:
149806
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For many years, negotiators and activists have been working to develop a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict believing that Jerusalem and the issues related to it should be left to the end of the peace process. This was due to the sensitive and symbolic value of the city, not only for its residents, but also for millions of believers of the three major monotheistic religions all over the world. The stagnation in the diplomatic negotiations, together with the dramatic increase in the amount of violent incidents in both parts of the city in recent years, has made it necessary to review this belief.
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ID:
149817
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ID:
149807
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Few cities evoke feelings as immediate, visceral and primal as Jerusalem. The name is synonymous with salvation and destruction, the beginning and the end of time. Few who have visited it could escape its pull. It is fascinating, not just for its religious symbolism but also for the intense emotions people feel in encountering it. Even with the distant gaze of a secular humanist, I cannot help but feel connected to the connection, as it were, connected with the human search for meaning so spatially tied to the city.1 Jerusalem leaves no one untouched, despite the banalities of its overzealous souvenir hawkers, crawling traffic, overwhelming noise and overpriced hotels.
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ID:
149802
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No one can imagine when first looking at Jerusalem, with the light rail, the clean paved roads, the old and new buildings, that just a few blocks away from the European-like main streets, there are Palestinian neighborhoods that look like slums, and not because the buildings are poorly constructed, on the contrary. More than 37% of Jerusalem’s population are Palestinian residents who are living in East Jerusalem neighborhoods that lack basic services, adequate roads and safe sidewalks — when and if they exist.
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ID:
149811
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ID:
149803
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During the first week of November 2016, Seville hosted a conference devoted to “Empowering East and West Jerusalem’s Younger Generation: Bridging to a Fair Political Resolution and Promoting the Role of Andalusian Society in the construction of Middle East Peace,” organized jointly by the Spanish organization Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz (ACPP), Ir Amim from Israel and the Palestine-Israel Journal (PIJ).
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