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may be separated from
other Palestinians, but they identify
strongly as part of the Palestinian
people.
Gold, author of the recent book The
Battle for Jerusalem, says the idea that
Palestinians might be satisfied with
an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood as
their future capital is an "Israeli illusion'
"The real issue in Jerusalem comes
down to access to holy sites," he
said. The Palestinians "want the Old
City. If you simply pull back from
east Jerusalem neighborhoods, the
Palestinians will demand the Old City,
which is their real goal."
Hillel Cohen, a historian who just
published The Market Square is Empty:
The Rise and Fall of Our Jerusalem,
said, "I don't think there's any debate
on the facts of life in Jerusalem. The
debates are what to do with real-
ity. Should some neighborhoods be
handed to the Palestinian Authority?
Should regional municipalities be
established? What will happen to the
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Rami Nasrallah, an urban plan-
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Center in eastern Jerusalem, said
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the city, with equal resources given to
the Jewish and Arab sectors.
Meanwhile, he said, as the security
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entire generation of Palestinians liv-

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ing outside the city limits grows up
without being able to visit the city and
its holy sites, the situation becomes
increasingly volatile.
Both the Israeli and Palestinian gov-
ernments are weak, and even with the
best of intentions, the political force
needed to broker a peace deal is lack-
ing, he said.
Hasson, the geographer, said that in
the absence of a permanent resolution
of Jerusalem's status, interim solu-
tions are needed. He suggested three
options:
The first is based on the Brussels
example, where one overarching
municipality deals with larger issues
of infrastructure and planning and
two separate municipalities oversee
cultural, religious and social issues.
A second option could be a unilat-
eral separation, with Jewish neighbor-
hoods under Israeli control and Arab
ones under Palestinian Authority
control.
Acknowledging that the city is
almost equally divided among Arabs,
Orthodox Jews and non-Orthodox
Jews, Hasson said a third option would
be to create separate boroughs for
each sector. The Old City itself could
be a fourth borough.
Each of these possibilities has its
shortcomings, Hasson acknowledged,
but suggested, "These could be the
first steps to a permanent-state solu-
tion and could change the frame of
mind of both sides." 17

Robert Rollinger

Rollinger of West Bloomfield recalls encountering
someone who wasn't pleased with Israel's victory.
"I was in geometry, and the kid who sat in front of
me, who I didn't realize was an anti-Semite, said he
was happy that the Egyptians were going to kill the
Jews and drive them into the sea," he recalls. "When
the teacher wasn't looking, I hit the guy. I didn't get
in trouble because the teacher didn't see it, and the
guy kept his mouth shut after that."

- Don Cohen, JN special writer

'Made Me Want To Go To Israel

Frank Hoffman of Farmington Hills was a student
at the University of Illinois at Chicago and had just
finished the spring quarter of school when he heard
that fighting had begun. He was with a group of
Jewish friends who were trying to become affiliated
with the national Jewish fraternity ZBT.
"A bunch of us talked about going over there and
the next thing I knew it was over," Hoffman recalled.
Frank Hoffman
"We were beside ourselves with the success of the
Israelis. It made me want to go to Israel, but it took me 23 years more
to get there."

- Don Cohen, JN special writer

