Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City Book

Preface     x
Acknowledgements     xvi
List of Tables     xviii
List of Maps     xix
Prologue: The Heavenly City     1
Jerusalem of the Jews
Jerusalem of the Christians
Jerusalem of the Muslims
The Wars of the Consuls     14
The holy places
Egyptian rule in Jerusalem
The Protestant bishopric
War clouds over the tomb of Christ
Old City, New City     45
Beyond the walls
Spiritual imperialism
Jerusalem promoted
'A Christmas present for the British nation'
Jerusalem under the Mandate     82
From military government to mandate
Christian triumphalism
The rise of the mufti
Towards partition
'A glorified cockpit'
Division     132
Mandatory abdication
Spontaneous partition
Pantomime across the Jordan
Collapse of corpus separatum
A king for Jerusalem
'Will the Vatican send an army here?'
Two Jerusalems     179
Divide and rule
Jerusalem demoted
Christians in a divided Jerusalem
New consular wars
Cul-de-sac capital
Annexation     205
Conquest
Unification
Jerusalem under Israeli rule
Arab resistance
World reaction
Towards Palestinian Autonomy     239
Diplomacy by declaratory gesture
Jerusalem: an American problem?
Palestinians and Jerusalem
Intifada and after
Christian Jerusalem in Eclipse     266
Christians under Jewish rule
Reds andwhites
Creeping Partition     287
The Beilin-Abu Mazen agreement
Palestinian elections
The siege of Orient House
The Camp David impasse
Trouble on the Temple Mount     317
Palimpsest
Riots at the Wailing Wall
The Temple Mount under Israeli rule
The battle of the muftis
The logic of haggle
Epilogue: The Earthly City     345
Jigsaw-puzzle solutions
The Clinton legacy
Israeli and Palestinian public opinions
Demographic diktat?
Must heaven wait?
Notes     363
Sources     397
Index     407