Divided we stand. (Jerusalem, Israel, is a divided city)(Column)

From: The Humanist | Date: March 1, 1997| Author: Orent, Wendy | Copyright information

A woman describes a conversation she had with an elderly Israeli man who had heroically delivered medical supplies to Jewish doctors during the 1948 war. He made her question why Jerusalem should belong only to the Jews. She now sees that Jerusalem is a divided city that belongs to Arabs as well as Jews.

He was more than ninety years old when I met him, and that was nine' teen years ago. He lived alone in a little apartment somewhere in Jerusalem. All I remember is that he had th...

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