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Contested Israeli-Palestinian Histories of Jerusalem

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The chapter analyzes the contesting historical narratives of Jewish Israelis and Muslim Palestinians regarding Jerusalem, an ancient city sacred to both. It portrays how the century-old territorial conflict between the two people impacted their identity, self-perception, and worldview regarding their own history and their discernment of the other party to the conflict and its role in the history of Jerusalem. Five main controversial issues to which the narratives of Palestinians and Israelis relate are being examined: affirmation of the essence of the holiness of Jerusalem, assertion of when the city was founded and by whom, establishment of when Jerusalem became an administrative and political center, proof of continuity of residence in Jerusalem, and denial of the historical affinity to Jerusalem on the other side in the conflict.

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Reiter, Y., Herman, O. (2023). Contested Israeli-Palestinian Histories of Jerusalem. In: Kumaraswamy, P.R. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Israel. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2717-0_69-1

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