Israel is moving forward with another large housing project on territory it seized during the 1967 Mideast war, unveiling plans to build 2,610 units in what critics say would be the first entirely new development on disputed land in 14 years. Plans for the project, to be called Givat Hamatos, would expand the footprint of Jewish housing development into new areas, nearly cutting Arab neighborhoods of East off from West Bank communities. If built, the project would make it harder to create a Palestinian state with contiguous borders and a capital in East , opponents say.
JERUSALEM - When East Jerusalem teachers ask students to open their history books these days, pupils are wondering: Which one? Two sets of textbooks are vying for the formative minds of thousands of Palestinian students in Arabic-language schools in East Jerusalem. One was written by the Palestinian Authority, and the other is a revised version reprinted by Israeli authorities.
Whispering to his wife a moment before an assassin's bullet entered his brain, Abraham Lincoln shared what would be his final words: There is no place I should like to see so much as Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM - Mysterious stone carvings made thousands of years ago and recently uncovered in an excavation underneath Jerusalem have archaeologists stumped. Israeli diggers who uncovered a complex of rooms carved into the bedrock in the oldest section of the city recently found the markings: Three "V" shapes cut next to each other into the limestone floor of one of the rooms, about 2 inches deep and 20 inches long. There were no finds to offer any clues pointing to the identity of who made them or what purpose they served.
This was a bleak year for anyone who dreams of Middle East peace or Arab-Jewish coexistence. So, on Christmas Day, I'd like to write about an institution in Jerusalem that brings Christians, Jews, and Muslims together, and about its director, who has bridged divides that seem insurmountable.
In a few minutes, the fellow who helped me surfaces again; he sees me and the tube, and we walk down the steps together.\n One day in those early months as I walked up the stone steps, carved of the hard Jerusalem stone that had been quarried to build the city, a rock-almost certainly, of the same stone-came flying over the top of the stairs, hitting me in the head sharply enough and bloodying enough to make me cry out and sit down. The boy's mother (it was a boy who lived along the street on top who had thrown it) was with me almost before I came to myself, dragging her frightened son by the hand; a group of bystanders assembled, chattering among themselves, and one of them who owned a car volunteered to take me to a clinic.
This "annexed zone" encompasses a large swathe of the West Bank, which includes a number of Palestinian villages. It is a weirdly configured area (looking more like a "gerrymandered" U.S. Congressional District than natural borders of a city) that reaches north to the outskirts of Ramallah and south to Bethlehem. To establish the fiction that this entire area is "Jerusalem," Israel extended its law and even offered Israeli citizenship to the Palestinians within the new borders. And to the settlements/colonies they built (more like massive suburbs of high rise buildings) within this annexed zone Israel gave the more benign name "neighborhoods. Israel has also taken measures to thin out the Palestinian population within their version of "greater Jerusalem" while making a determined effor...
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