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Living Along the Seam: Israeli Palestinians in Jerusalem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

Alex Weingrod  and
ʿAdel Mannaʿ
Alex Weingrod
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel.
ʿAdel Mannaʿ
Affiliation:
Associate Professor and Director, Institute for Israeli–Arab Studies, Truman Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
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Deeply divided between opposing national, religious, and ethnic groups, contemporary Jerusalem is a paradigm of urban heterogeneity and dichotomous identities. The social divisions that split Jerusalem are many and deep; to list the more obvious lines of fragmentation, this small city of about a half-million persons includes Muslims, Christians, and Jews; secular and ultra-orthodox Jews; Palestinian refugees; peasants; and old established Jerusalemite families. Although Jerusalem's physical and social landscape is criss-crossed by multiple political and symbolic boundaries, there can be no doubt that the major fault line is between Israelis and Palestinians—or, to use the terms often employed by members of both groups, between Jews and Arabs. This results from Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967 and the forced imposition of Israeli sovereignty over the entire city. Israel holds political and legal control throughout Jerusalem, while the Palestinians, who consider themselves to be in a situation of illegal occupation, continue to be Jordanian citizens who are classified under Israeli law as ‘residents of Jerusalem’ (Romann & Weingrod 1991). As a consequence of this fundamental division, practically every feature of this Holy City—from urban space to everyday consumer products (such as milk, vegetables, bread, and cigarettes) and including buses, buildings, and even sounds and colors—is perceived and identified by members of both groups as either “Israeli” or “Palestinian.” These two basic group identities appear to be totally discrete and mutually exclusive.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , August 1998 , pp. 369 - 386
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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