The Washington Post, September 16th, 2001
DIVIDED JERUSALEM The Struggle for the Holy City By Bernard Wasserstein Yale Univ. 412 pp. $29.95 Whoever was responsible for the airborne terrorism that struck New York and Washington, the attacks became understably linked, in the initial press coverage, to the conflict in the Middle East. There, the city of Jerusalem has the same symbolic resonance as the American landmarks that were hit on Sept. 11. So complex is the web of claims to Jerusalem that the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators who forged a landmark agreement in Oslo in 1993 ducked the issue, leaving the city's "permanent status" ...
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