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Does the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have a solution? Is there real hope for peace and justice in the Middle East, or is more violence and hatred the only possible future? Scholars, politicians, and analysts from Israel, Palestine, and the U.S. agree that the answers to these difficult questions lie in the fate of Jerusalem. Is this torn, divided city, shared and fought over by Jews and Palestinians, doomed to an endless civil war? Or does its deeply troubled history suggest a way out of the quagmire? Meron Benvenisti, author of City of Stone:
The Hidden History of Jerusalem and Intimate Enemies: Jews
and Arabs in a Shared Land, lifelong resident of the city,
and columnist for Ha'aretz, presented his controversial
views on the cyclical history of heavenly and earthly Jerusalem.
Joining him for this public discussion were Rashid Khalidi,
Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle
East Institute at Columbia University, and Peter Marcuse,
Professor of Urban Planning and Theory at Columbia University's
Graduate School of Architecture.
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