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Jerusalem Unbound - Geography, History, and the Future of the Holy City (Hardcover)
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Jerusalem Unbound - Geography, History, and the Future of the Holy City (Hardcover)
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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.
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