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...swift in coming. Hamas' electoral landslide in Palestine just six months ago marked the political death of Yasser Arafat and the secular, vaguely socialist and entirely nationalist movement he represented. Hamas is fighting not to create a 23rd Arab state but, as its charter explains, to recover "an Islamic Waqf." Meaning? Territory claimed under the Islamic precept that "any land the Muslims have conquered by force ... during the times of [Islamic] conquests" more than a millennium ago belongs to Muslims forever because "the Muslims consecrated these lands to Muslim generations until the Day of Judgment...
...archaeologists - denied permission by the Muslim authorities, the Waqf, to supervise the excavation - fear systematic destruction of Jewish relics. The debris contained pottery shards dating to the time of Solomon's Temple, according to Israeli officials. "This isn't a political dispute. It's a cultural intifadeh," says Gabriel Barkay, an archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv. Last week Barkay and other local archaeologists persuaded the Israeli High Court to temporarily bar the removal of any more debris. Israelis say that since the reconstruction, a bulge in the Mount's southern wall has started to warp much faster...
...world where Jews and Arabs, Israelis and their Middle Eastern neighbors have consistently worked together beyond the rancors of politics on matters of common inheritance. The exhibition now on view at the museum and curated by Nitza Rosovsky, for example, was to go next year to the Muslim Waqf's Islamic Museum in the Old City of Jerusalem...
...building boom is not confined to the hotels, which were host this winter to a record half-million tourists. On the edge of the city, entire new suburbs are in being or abuilding. At Medinet el Waqf, Egypt's new managers are housed in modern stucco cottages. On the northern rim of the city, 40,000 low-cost housing units were erected last year...