Whither Jerusalem?
Title | Whither Jerusalem? PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah Housen-Couriel |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2023-12-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9004640282 |
The future of Jerusalem is the most difficult issue facing negotiators, political and legal experts. In the current peace talks between Israel and its neighbours, it has been agreed to postpone discussion on Jerusalem to the latest stage of the peace process. But the Jerusalem question continues to come to the fore at every turn, always charged with intensely emotional and uncompromising statements: not only from those parties who are directly involved, but also by eminent personalities, organizations and states elsewhere. The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies has collected 55 proposals: 12 were written between 1916-1950 and 43 between 1967-1993. Their authors, coming from various countries, present various approaches to the three main issues at stake: sovereignty, holy places, and municipal governance. Whither Jerusalem? summarizes each of the 55 proposals, gives brief information about their authors, and analyzes the similarities and divergences between them. The official position of five states and organizations is included, as well as a lexicon of terms used by the authors of the proposals.
Whither Jerusalem?
Title | Whither Jerusalem? PDF eBook |
Author | Moshe Hirsch |
Publisher | Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1995-06-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9789041100771 |
The future of Jerusalem is the most difficult issue facing negotiators, political and legal experts. In the current peace talks between Israel and its neighbours, it has been agreed to postpone discussion on Jerusalem to the latest stage of the peace process. But the Jerusalem question continues to come to the fore at every turn, always charged with intensely emotional and uncompromising statements: not only from those parties who are directly involved, but also by eminent personalities, organizations and states elsewhere. The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies has collected 55 proposals: 12 were written between 1916-1950 and 43 between 1967-1993. Their authors, coming from various countries, present various approaches to the three main issues at stake: sovereignty, holy places, and municipal governance. "Whither Jerusalem?" summarizes each of the 55 proposals, gives brief information about their authors, and analyzes the similarities and divergences between them. The official position of five states and organizations is included, as well as a lexicon of terms used by the authors of the proposals.
Land or Peace: Whither Israel?
Title | Land or Peace: Whither Israel? PDF eBook |
Author | Yael Yishai |
Publisher | Hoover Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Israel |
ISBN | 9780817985233 |
Jerusalem, the Holy City
Title | Jerusalem, the Holy City PDF eBook |
Author | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Jerusalem |
ISBN |
Whither?
Title | Whither? PDF eBook |
Author | Mordecai Zeʼev Feuerberg |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Hebrew fiction |
ISBN |
Jerusalem Unbound
Title | Jerusalem Unbound PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Dumper |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2014-05-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0231161964 |
Jerusalem’s formal political borders reveal neither the dynamics of power in the city nor the underlying factors that make an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians so difficult. The lines delineating Israeli authority are frequently different from those delineating segregated housing or areas of uneven service provision or parallel national electoral districts of competing educational jurisdictions. In particular, the city’s large number of holy sites and restricted religious compounds create enclaves that continually threaten to undermine the Israeli state’s authority and control over the city. This lack of congruity between political control and the actual spatial organization and everyday use of the city leaves many areas of occupied East Jerusalem in a kind of twilight zone where citizenship, property rights, and the enforcement of the rule of law are ambiguously applied. Michael Dumper plots a history of Jerusalem that examines this intersecting and multileveled matrix and in so doing is able to portray the constraints on Israeli control over the city and the resilience of Palestinian enclaves after forty-five years of Israeli occupation. Adding to this complex mix is the role of numerous external influences—religious, political, financial, and cultural—so that the city is also a crucible for broader contestation. While the Palestinians may not return to their previous preeminence in the city, neither will Israel be able to assert a total and irreversible dominance. His conclusion is that the city will not only have to be shared, but that the sharing will be based upon these many borders and the interplay between history, geography, and religion.
Whither Israel?
Title | Whither Israel? PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Kyle |
Publisher | I.B. Tauris |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1993-12-31 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
The thirteen contributors to Whither Israel? examine the social and ideological divisions that have beset Israel, the roots of the country's economic decline and the recent developments within, and dynamics of political parties and groupings. The majority of books available on Israel have chosen to focus predominantly on the Palestinian question and on the Arab-Israeli conflict as a whole. There have, as a result, been few studies that have attempted to explore the complexities of Israeli society and domestic politics. This book fills a distinct gap in attempting to cover such issues and provides a clearer understanding of the implications of the domestic challenge for the future direction of Israeli society, particularly in the light of the present Rabin government.