Jerusalem. The Biography

Weidenfeld,
Remembering My Good Friends
201–20. Author interviews with Lord Weidenfeld. Let Jews have Jerusalem: Churchill quoted by John Shuckburgh in Gilbert,
Churchill and the Jews
292. Weizmann on dislike of Jerusalem as president: Weizmann 169. Battle of Jerusalem: Bar-Zohar,
Ben-Gurion
164–70. Truman, ‘I am Cyrus’: Oren,
Power
501.
27 King Hussein 1951–67. Succession and early reign: Shlaim,
Lion of Jordan
49; PLO 218–27; war 235–51. Nigel Ashton,
King Hussein of Jordan: A Political Life
(henceforth Ashton) 13–26; war 113–20. Hussein,
Uneasy Lies the Head
110. Mufti’s last visitMarch 1967; Pappe 346; Arafat, Mufti’s heir 337. Renovations of Dome etc.: Cresswell in
OJ
415–21. Author interview with Princess Firyal of Jordan. Goldhill,
City of Longing
38. Nusseibeh,
Country
62–8; father’s career 72–5; rise of Arafat, Fatah 62–94. Budeiri, ‘Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold’,
JQ
3, Winter/Spring 2001. Oz,
Tale
70. Mandelbaum Gate – not gate not Mandelbaum, snipers, divided city/ population: Wasserstein 40, 180–2, 191–2, 200. Life in divided Jerusalem, Mandelbaum Gate, return of Katy Antonius, small town, Bertha Spafford Vester: Bird 10–11; Katy Antonius, dragon and flirt, café 16–20; quotation by Kai Bird on ‘jarring series of ad hoc fences’ 19; Mandelbaums 20–4; Russian émigré vs Soviet Churches and CIA payments 32, including Kai Bird quotation on Cold War in Jerusalem (as ardently as Berlin alleyways); Orient House hotel 33.
Nasser discusses Jerusalem: author interview with N. Nashashibi. Orthodox Jews: Yakov Lupo and Nitzan Chen, ‘The Ultra-Orthodox’, in O. Ahimeir and Y. Bar-Simon-Tov (eds),
Forty Years in Jerusalem
65–95. Also: Yakov Loupo and Nitzan Chen, ‘The Jerusalem Area Ultra-Orthodox Population’, ms. Elon,
Jerusalem
189–94. Ben-Gurion and Eichmann: interview with Yitzhak Yaacovy. Haram quiet, few Muslim visitors in 1950s: Oleg Grabar,
Sacred Explanade
388. Hussein, PLO, United Kingdom plan: Nusseibeh,
Jerusalemites
133–53.
28 Six Day War: this is based on Michael B. Oren,
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
; Tom Segev,
1967: Israel, the War and the Year that Transformed the Middle East
; Shlaim,
Lion of Jordan
; Jeremy Bowen,
Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East
; and Rogan 333–43, including Nasser–Amer conversation; and Nasser hope to claim victory without war, post-war Palestinian nationalism/Arafat 343–53. Nasser not Abdullah: Nashashibi 228. Shlaim,
Lion of Jordan
235–51. Ashton 113–20. Dayan 287–381. Gilbert,
JTC
272–97. Dayan personality: Shindler,
History
101. On Dayan: author conversation with Shimon Peres. Michael Bar-Zohar,
Shimon Peres: A Biography
87–90. Bar-Zohar,
Ben-Gurion
on Dayan’s sex life 118–19. Dayan character: Ariel Sharon,
Warrior
76, 127, 222.
29 Wall liberated: Dayan 13–17. On Dayan: author conversation with Shimon Peres. Ashton 118–20, Shlaim,
Lion of Jordon
248–51 and 258. Hussein weeps for city: Noor, Queen of Jordan,
Leap of Faith
, 75–7.
    E PILOGUE
     
1 1967–present: population Wasserstein 212, 328–38; peace plans 345; white flight of secular Jews, falling proportion of Jews from 74 per cent in 1967 to 68 per cent in 2000. Forty peace plans for Jerusalem: Shlaim,
Israel and
Palestine 229, also 25–36; on Jerusalem 253–60. Population in 2000 including 140,000 Orthodox Jews: Loupo and Chen, ‘Ultra-Orthodox’, Ahimeir and Bar-Simon-Tov,
Forty Years in
Jerusalem 65–95. Population 2008: figures based on Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies. After 1967 and Resolution 339 Rogan 242. ‘Jerusalem’s Settlements’,
The Economist
3 July 2010 ‘Jerusalem Mayor Handing City to Settlers’
Haaretz
,22 February 2010 and ‘Jerusalem Master Plan’,
Haaretz
, 28 June 2010. Jerusalem Syndrome: Yair Bar-El et al.,
British Journal of Psychiatry
176 (2000) 86–90.
2 This cursory account of the political developments since 1967 is based, unless otherwise stated, on: Krämer; Rogan; Shindler,
History
. Arafat and Fatah: Rogan 343–53; Hussein recognition of PLO to West Bank 378; First Intifada, Hamas and Nusseibeh and Faisal Husseini roles 429–37 and 465–7; Netanyahu settlements 476; Second Intifada 478–9. PLO years: Achcar 211–31. Pappe: Arafat 337 and 351(Husseini connection); Faisal al-Husseini 348–9. On ideology of settlement of Jerusalem and West Bank: Ariel Sharon,
Warrior
354–72; ‘how to secure Jerusalem as permanent