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Jerusalem, holy city of three great religions, is dying from strangulation. The rope around its neck is the barbed wire which separates Jew from Arab, the New City from...
Before the Arab-Israel war of 1948-49, Jerusalem was a thriving community of nearly a quarter of a million people. Today, divided between Israel and Jordan, after three years of "armistice" without real peace, it is a 1,650-sq. mi. economic wilderness. Blocked gates, streets dead-ended by dragons teeth and rusting barbed wire, roadblocks and ruins divide the two cities, which for economic well-being must be one. On the Arab side, 100,000 people live without money to buy plentiful goods. On the Jewish side, somewhere between 110,000 and 140,000 people live with money...
Palestinian Prison. Business on both sides of this divided city is almost dead. The proprietor of Bulos' souvenir shop just inside Jaffa Gate in the Arab section surveyed his empty store and the empty street leading to the gate where Arab Legionnaires, checked kaffiyehs on their heads, blocked the way. "Before the war," he said, "at this time of the morning the street would be jammed with tourists from the King David Hotel. By Sunday night the counters would be empty and the cash register full of those beautiful old Palestinian pounds. Today I've got a store...
...caller was Colonel Adib Shishekly, Syria's publicity-shy strong man, and he had come to ask a favor of his Lebanese neighbor. Iraq wanted to condemn him as a dictator at the next meeting of the Arab League, Shishekly wanted the charge defeated. King Talal of Jordan had already offered Shishekly his support. Egypt and Saudi-Arabia would automatically oppose anything suggested by Iraq's pro-British Premier Nuri es-Said. Lebanon soon made it clear that it would do likewise. Thus assured, Shishekly rode off to Damascus, and went back to slapping one decree after another...
Paris shuddered at such tactics. Left-wing Paris dailies likened De Hautecloque to Hitler, and predicted dire trouble in Tunisia. Instead, after two days, the shaken Bey, who looks like a distinguished European actor impersonating an Arab, yielded to French demands. He went even further, blaming Tunisia's troubles on the nationalists, "men whose secret intentions were surely evil." Then he turned over Tunisia's Foreign Ministry to Resident De Hautecloque, agreed to withdraw Tunisian complaints from the U.N., and appointed a fat and wealthy pro-French Prime Minister, Salah Eddine Ben Mohammed Baccouche, 69, who proudly wears...