Description
This paper has been written against the backdrop that Jerusalem’s historical, religious and political significance to two peoples and three faiths, and its ethnic diversity, have shaped it as a city fraught with a unique mixture of conflicts, whether domestically, regionally or internationally. The paper looks at the developments in the city in the late 1980s/early 1990s – i.e., prior to the Oslo peace process and actual negotiations – and examines the various approaches and proposals to solve the Jerusalem issue as well as their “real-world” applicability. The focus is thereby on main stream Palestinian and Israeli views and proposed solutions. The present fourth edition, recognizing the fact that since then, the Jerusalem Question has become a core agenda issue in the peace process and the subject of intense official and unofficial negotiations, discusses developments of the past ten years and explores the implications of the fact that dual Palestinian and Israeli capitals in Jerusalem as the framework for a solution has today won widespread international agreement.
