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Marooned in the U.K.'s rain-sodden Midlands and best known for a local soccer team, Manchester has struggled to shake off its abiding image of "dark Satanic mills" first noted by the poet William Blake in his epic Jerusalem back in 1820. It's never quite been the place for picturesque holidays, much less arts festivals - until...
...comes with no Jerusalem office, and Blair would most likely find digs inside the stately American Colony Hotel, whose gardens and Orientalist splendor could seduce him into thinking that he is indeed Jerusalem's new Pasha. But Blair may find himself pacing his Ottoman-era suite with nowhere to go: the Israelis will dodge him because he will demand concessions for the Palestinians, while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will lie low because he is incapable of forcing the territories' militant groups to cease their violence against Israelis, or even among themselves...
...jihadist factions, including al-Qaeda, which are flourishing amid Gaza's poverty and misery, may fill the gap. "If Hamas can break the back of these big, powerful clans, then they can bring a measure of order to Gaza," says Nicholas Pelham, an International Crisis Group senior analyst in Jerusalem...
...gradually the vocabulary of the Palestinians' struggle changed. Today Palestinians speak less of a battle against the Israelis for land and rights than of something vaguer and more dangerous, framed in the apocalyptic terms of a holy war. The 1967 conflict, says Michael Oren of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, the author of a book on the war, "hastened the downfall of Arab secularism and opened the doors to the new idea of Islamic radicalism." In Jalazon, Omar al-Nakhla...
...Palestinians' sense of identity--and their rage--was sharpened by the spread of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories after the war. (There are now some 250,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank and an additional 182,000 in East Jerusalem, which Israel has annexed.) Crowning the hill above Jalazon is the Beit El settlement. Remove the barbed-wire fencing, the security gate and guard towers, and Beit El's tidy rows of red-roofed houses and gardens could be mistaken for an Arizona suburb. A friend of Omar's named Yousef, a crude map of Palestine tattooed...