Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suspicion and hostility run as deep as ever between the Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem. But the two populations have developed a working coexistence that has been one of the small comforts of the Arab-Israeli deadlock. Thanks to Is rael's live-and-let-live occupation policy, the two communities have been awk ward, but relatively peaceable neighbors since...
Some 3,000 Arabs work in the Jewish area of the city. By paying Israeli income tax, the Arabs of Jerusalem now enjoy the benefits of Israel's advanced social welfare system. There is a brisk traffic of Jews and Arabs, for business and pleasure, between the two sectors of the formerly divided city. On Friday nights young Jews can, for example, escape from the rigors of the Sabbath into three discotheques in the Arab section. Most important, until last week there had been no major incidents of violence among the two populations of Jerusalem...
Vengeful Rampage. The fragile cohesion patiently nurtured by the Israeli government since the occupation nearly came unstuck after three explosions rocked the Israeli sector of Jerusalem in a space of four hours, injuring a number of Israelis and two U.S. students...
Sabotaged Aims. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan rushed to Jerusalem in order to reassure the frightened Arabs who had locked themselves in their shut tered homes. Denouncing the riots as "criminal hooliganism," he blamed the bombings on terrorist infiltrators and exonerated the local Arab population. "We want to see a single unified Jerusalem, and by confusing the large civilian population with a small group of saboteurs, we are sabotaging our own aims," argued Dayan...
Over the years, Cook's services have been sought by princes and kings, including Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, whose visit to Jerusalem Cook's arranged in 1898. It required 300 tents, 800 mule drivers, 1,430 mules and camels and a small army of servants to keep the Kaiser and his retinue comfortable on the journey. Cook's has never since done anything on quite such grandiose scale. It hopes from now on to increase profits by presenting a more proletarian image...