A Street Divided (33 page)
Authors: Dion Nissenbaum
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Introduction
1.
Dr. Seuss,
The Sneetches and Other Stories
(New York: Random House, 1961), 33.
Chapter One: No Man's Land
1.
Meron Benvenisti,
City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), 63.
2.
Ibid., 57.
3.
“Report of the Special Mixed Armistice Commission Meeting Called by the Chief of Staff on 23 April, 1953,” May 13, 1953, Jerusalem, Reports, United Nations Archives and Records Center, New York City, New York (hereafter UN Archives).
4.
Ibid.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Ibid.
10.
Ibid.
11.
Ibid.
12.
Maj. Gen. Vagn Bennike, Letter to UN Security Council, UN Truce Supervision Organization, December 12, 1953, Jerusalem, UN Archives.
13.
New York Times News Service, “Nuns Recover Dentures from No Man's Land,”
Milwaukee Journal,
May 23, 1956.
14.
Ibid.
15.
E. H. Hutchison,
Violent Truce: A Military Observer Looks at the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1951â1955
(New York: The Devin-Adir Company, 1956), 11.
16.
“Jordan Yields Wrong Sheep,”
Jerusalem Post,
February 11, 1958.
17.
Ibid.
18.
“Betrothal in No-Man's-Land,”
Jerusalem Post,
November 15, 1956.
19.
“Couple Married in No-Man's-Land,”
Jerusalem Post,
September 14, 1956.
20.
“Husband Cools Off in No Man's Land,”
Jerusalem Post,
August 16, 1959.
21.
“Jerusalem AreaâAbu TorâConstruction Between the Lines,” unsigned memo, Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, February 11, 1966, Jerusalem, UN Archives.
22.
“One-Sided Investigation of Jordan Complaint No. M-91,” memo from Maj. J. C. Jenkins and Capt. C. Bernard to Chairman, HJK-I-MAC, February 28, 1966, Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, Jerusalem, UN Archives.
23.
“Second Session of Emergency Meeting No. 420,” March 8, 1966, Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, Jerusalem, UN Archives.
24.
Ibid.
25.
Ibid.
26.
“Fourth Session of Emergency Meeting No. 420,” March 14, 1966, Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, Jerusalem, UN Archives.
27.
Uzi Narkiss,
The Liberation of Jerusalem
(London: Valentine Mitchell, 1983), 35.
28.
Ibid.
29.
“100,000 Trees for Jerusalem Border,”
Jerusalem Post,
August 15, 1957.
30.
“Report by the Acting Chief of Staff to the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine,” September 24, 1957, Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission, Jerusalem, UN Archives.
31.
Ibid.
32.
“Text of Complaint by the Jordanian Delegation,” July 24, 1957, Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission, Jerusalem, UN Archives.
33.
Yossi Katz, “Israeli Tree Planting in the Armon Hanatziv (the former British Government House) Area in the Summer of 1957,” (unpublished manuscript, March 2015), provided to author by Jewish National Fund.
34.
Ibid.
35.
Ibid.
36.
Ibid.
37.
Ibid.
38.
Ibid.
39.
Ibid.
40.
Ibid.
41.
Ibid.
42.
“Verbatim Record of the 787th Meeting,” September 6, 1957, UN Security Council, New York, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
43.
Ibid.
44.
Ibid.
45.
“Verbatim Record of the 788th Meeting,” September 6, 1957, UN Security Council, New York, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
46.
Ibid.
47.
Ibid.
48.
Ibid.
49.
Ibid.
50.
Shalom Israel Tours website,
http://shalomisraeltours.com/peace-forest/
.
Chapter Two: Father of the Bull
1.
W. Besant and E. H. Palmer,
Jerusalem, the City of Herod and Saladin
(London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund), 433.
2.
Doron Oren, personal research.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Ibid.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Atria Winchester, “Creativity on the Cusp,”
Jerusalem Post,
March 25, 2005.
10.
Ibid.
11.
“Two More Held for Flat-Jumping,”
Jerusalem Post,
July 20, 1967.
12.
“High Court Throws Out Flat-Jumpers Claims,”
Jerusalem Post,
July 21, 1967.
Chapter Three: The Martyrs
1.
Memo from UN Operations Officer to Chairman of Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission, November 7, 1957, UN Archives and Records Center, New York City, New York.
2.
Ibid.
3.
Oded Shalom and Gideon Maron, “And in Its Center, a Transparent Wall,”
Yedioth Ahronoth,
April 23, 2007.
4.
Ibid.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Ibid.
10.
“48th
MAC Meeting,” February 12, 1951, Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission, Transcript, Jerusalem, UN Archives.
11.
Ibid.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Ibid.
14.
Ibid.
15.
Ibid.
16.
Raphael Israeli,
Jerusalem Divided: The Armistice Regime, 1947â1967
(London: Frank Cass & Co., 2002), 56.
17.
“High Court Throws Out Flat-Jumpers Claims,”
Jerusalem Post,
July 21, 1967.
18.
“Israel Declines to Study Rabin Tie to Beatings,”
New York Times,
July 12, 1990.
19.
Herb Keinon, “Baum Appointment Draws Protests, Praise Tough New Commander in Abu Tor,”
Jerusalem Post,
December 8, 1989.
20.
Ibid.
21.
Ibid.
22.
Stephen Franklin, “Uprising Shattering Jerusalem's Dream of Coexistence,”
Chicago Tribune,
January 14, 1990.
23.
Keinon, “Baum Appointment Draws Protests.”
24.
Ibid.
25.
Ibid.
26.
Franklin, “Uprising Shattering Jerusalem's Dream of Coexistence.”
27.
Ibid.
28.
Ibid.
29.
Ibid.
30.
“Flurry of Meetings Seek to End Israeli-Palestinian Fighting,” CNN.com, September 26, 1996.
31.
Eitan Felner, “Playing with Fire on the Temple Mount,” B'Tselem, December 1996,
http://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/199612_playing_with_fire
.
32.
Ibid.
33.
Ibid.
34.
Ibid.
35.
Ibid.
36.
Ibid.
37.
Bill Delaney, “Proximity, History Bind Jerusalem Israelis, Arabs,” CNN.com, September 29, 1996.
38.
Ibid.
39.
Ibid.
40.
Said Ghazali, “Palestinians and Israelis Live Under Fragile Coexistence,” Associated Press, September 28, 1996.
41.
Ibid.
42.
Suzanne Goldberg, “Rioting as Sharon Visits Islam Holy Site,”
Guardian
(UK), September 28, 2000.
43.
Ibid.
44.
Ibid.
45.
Ibid.
46.
David Rohde, “Mideast Turmoil: Jerusalem; Israelis Seek to Build Physical Barrier in West Bank,”
New York Times,
May 7, 2002.
47.
Ibid.
48.
Deal Hudson, “A City Divided: How Israel's Wall Is Splitting the Holy Land,”
Crisis Magazine,
January 10, 2005,
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2005/a-city-divided-how-israels-wall-is-splitting-the-holy-land
.
49.
Ibid.
50.
Ibid.
51.
Ibid.
Chapter Four: The Settlers
1.
“Immigration to Israel: Operation Magic CarpetâAirlift of Yemenite Jews,”
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Immigration/carpet.html
.
2.
Naomi E. Pasachoff and Robert J. Littman,
A Concise History of the Jewish People
(New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), 301.
3.
Martin Gilbert,
In Ishmael's House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
(Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010).
4.
Colin Shindler,
A History of Modern Israel
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 2008), 63.
5.
Rhona D. Seidelman, “Encounters in an Israeli Line: Sha'ar Ha-'aliyah, March 1950,”
AJS Perspectives
(Fall 2014).
6.
Rhona D. Seidelman, “Conflicts of Quarantine: The Case of Jewish Immigrants to the Jewish State,”
American Journal of Public Health
(February 2012).
7.
Seidelman, “Encounters in an Israeli Line.”
8.
Abraham Rabinovich, “No Politics Are Talked in Abu Tor,”
Jerusalem Post,
May 16, 1969.
9.
Ibid.
10.
Ibid.
11.
“One-sided Investigation of Israel Complaint No. M-425 dated 24 September 1966,” September 30, 1966, Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission, Jerusalem, UN Archives and Records Center, New York City, New York.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Ibid.
14.
Ibid.
15.
Ibid.
16.
Rabinovich, “No Politics Are Talked in Abu Tor.”
17.
Ibid.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Abraham Rabinovich,
The Battle for Jerusalem: June 5â7, 1967
(Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1972), 91.
20.
Rabinovich, “No Politics Are Talked in Abu Tor.”
21.
Ibid.
22.
Ibid.
23.
Ibid.
24.
Ibid.
25.
Ma'ale Adumim City Stats,
http://machat.co.il/news/maale-adumim-stats/
.
26.
Uzi Narkiss,
The Liberation of Jerusalem
(London: Valentine Mitchell, 1983), 35.
27.
Eyal Weizman,
Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation
(London: Verso, 2007), 114.
28.
The Old Testament, Joshua 6:21.
Chapter Five: The Collaborator
1.
“Fatwa from Religious Scholars of Palestine, 1935,”
http://www.muslim-lawyers.net/research/index.php3?aktion=show&number=58
.
2.
Ibid.
3.
Associated Press, “Firing Squads Killed Alleged Collaborators,”
USA Today,
January 13, 2001.
4.
Saleh Abdel Jawad, “The Classification and Recruitment of Collaborators,” The Issue of Collaborators in Palestine,
PASSIA,
March 2001.
5.
Ibid.
Chapter Six: The Peaceniks
1.
“What is Reiki?” International Center for Reiki Training,
www.reiki.org
.
2.
Timothy Egan, “A Conscience Haunted by a Radical's Crime,”
New York Times,
September 17, 1993.
3.
Alexander Marquardt and Bruno Nota, “Israeli PM Calls Killers of Three Israeli Teens âHuman Animals,'” ABCNews.com, June 30, 2014.
4.
Itamar Sharon, “Abu Khdeir Murder Suspect Gives Chilling Account of Killing,”
Times of Israel,
August 12, 2014.
5.
“Bereaved Mother Offers Condolences to Slain Arab Teen's Family,”
Times of Israel,
July 7, 2014.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Ibid.
8.
Daniel K. Eisenbud, “Jewish Abu Tor Residents See Spike in Arab Violence,”
Jerusalem Post,
July, 28, 2014.
9.
Ibid.
10.
“Assassin Was a Serial Arsonist, Assaulted 3 Wardens in Prison,” Ynetnews.com, October 30, 2014.
Chapter Seven: The Good Arab
1.
Jerusalem International YMCA website, YMCA.org.il.
2.
“A New Narrative,” YMCA mission statement,
http://ymca.org.il/about-us/ceos-view/
.
3.
“Making Connections Across Cultures,” YouTube video, 4:04, posted by Brandeis University, August 9, 2011,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp8FWNCYANo
.
4.
Ibid.
5.
Ibid.
6.
“Leftist MKs Blast Eitam's Statements on Arabs, Urge AG to Investigate,”
Haaretz,
September 11, 2006.
7.
“If Israel's Arab Citizens Indeed Are a âDemographic Bomb,' Can It Be Diffused?” JTA.org, December 22, 2003.
8.
“Lieberman Calls Arab MKs Who Meet with Hamas âCollaborators,'”
Jerusalem Post,
May 4, 2006.
9.
Jack Moore, “Lieberman Is âJewish ISIS' Says Israeli Politician after Beheading Comments,”
Newsweek,
March 10, 2015.
10.
Moshe Cohen, “Lieberman: Disloyal Arab-Israelis âShould Be Beheaded,'”
Arutz Sheva,
March 8, 2015.