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A CITY DIVIDED CITY OF COLLISION: JERUSALEM AND THE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT URBANISM Edited by Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets. Basel: Birkhauser. 2006. euro39.90
There are only two definite facts about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first is that the problem arose in the first place because European racism and European nationalism created a refugee settlement armed with European ideas about politics and society. The second is that local Arab leadership was historically incompetent, shortsighted, and personally corrupt; and its every attempt at armed resistance to Jewish and then Israeli occupation unfailingly resulted in a worse situation for its own people than the one before. Since neither of these historical facts is...