Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knapsack and took off on a round-the-world trip. To avoid postwar red tape and to have a bit of a lark, he forged his visas and slipped illegally into Hungary, Poland and Yugoslavia, where he was caught, locked up and then expelled. In Arab-held Jerusalem, after asking too many questions, he was arrested as an Israeli...
SINCE the end of the June war, Arabs and Israelis have had a chance to meet each other. In Jerusalem, for instance, the dead end streets with their signs, "Stop! Frontier ahead," suddenly turn out to lead somewhere. Across those streets and across the roads of both Israel and the occupied territories, Arabs and Jews have been walking and driving to explore the other side and each other...
...very little mutual contact has been established. "Relations between Arabs and Jews aren't bad--they are just non-existent," a cynical inhabitant of Jerusalem told me during my visit two months...
...other hand, Teddy Kollek, mayor of the united Jerusalem, says that the present offers both Jews and Arabs "a great opportunity for dialogues and cooperation." But it is clear that Mr. Kollok was somewhat over-optimistic when he called the newly united Jerusalem a "feast of peace," last July. There is no peace between Arabs and Jews and I did not see much feasting going on on either side, let alone together...
...improve and widen them. At the Government Tourist Bureau in Tel Aviv I asked how I could get to Nablus, the most prosperous city of the West Bank, some 50 miles from Tel Aviv. I was informed that there was no bus, unless I wanted to travel via Jerusalem. So I went...