Places have left their mark in the historical narrative – Lidice, where the Nazis, in the late spring of 1942, executed 173 men from the Czech village in reprisal for the assassination of Deputy of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich; Wounded Knee, where, on December 29, 1890, a dispute between soldiers from the Seventh U.S. Cavalry Regiment […]
A bone of contention
Michael Jansen The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict. The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
7 hours ago Palestinians are under pressure to emigrate from East Jerusalem and the West Bank. I spent my first night in East Jerusalem in Shaikh Jarrah in the family home of a new-found Palestinian friend. In the morning, I was introduced to an Italian architect who was also staying there. He was involved in renovations at the Dome of the Rock in the Haram al-Sharif, the mosque compound on the summit of Mount Moriah in the Old City. He took me on a tour of the project, where medieval Iranian tiles were being replaced by new tiles and the old lead dome by a gold-coloured aluminium structure which has since been replaced by gold. Jordan was then in charge of th