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JERUSALEM TODAY, WHAT FUTURE FOR THE PEACE PROCESS? Edited by GHADA KARMI (Published for The International Campaign for Jerusalem), London, Ithaca Press, 1996. 5 maps, xix, 191 pp.
Each year, an increasing number of books are published about Jerusalem. Most of these are written by Israeli and Jewish authors with certain orientations. This book is unique in that it contains Arab, Moslem, Christian and Jewish authors. It is a selection from papers presented at a major conference on Jerusalem, held in London in June 1995, and organized by The International Campaign for Jerusalem (ICJ). The ICJ is a non-governmental independent body, chaired by Dr Ghada Karmi, originally a Jerusalemite Arab but now residing in the UK.
The book is divided into four parts. Part I covers the legal status of Jerusalem, with two contributions by John Quigley (Ohio State University) and Rodman Bundy (a lawyer practising in a Paris-based law firm). Part 2 has three contributions by Uri Avneri (a leading Israeli peace activist) presenting an Israeli view, Adnan Abu Odeh (a leading Jordanian ex-diplomat) who presents his own Jordanian view, and Mahdi Abdul Hadi, a Palestinian academician who presents a Palestinian view of the future of the city. Part 3 covers the changing character of Jerusalem, by another three contributors: Israeli settlement policy in Jerusalem by Geoffrey Aronson from the Israeli Peace Now Movement, demographic and border issues by Michael Dumper (Exeter University) and a view of Jerusalem as a `stolen city' by Tim Llewellyn (an ex-BBC Middle East Correspondent).
More than one-third of the book is covered by Part 4, relating to...