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le that you elect can take decisions on your behalf. But in our case this is fantasy. What have the people that we elected done for us? Nothing. If Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) himself, the president of this country, wants to go from one place to another, he has to get a permit. SPIEGEL: How can the kind o
n in this conflict? Nusseibeh: I grew up with the idea of a very tolerant Islam. My family has had the keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (in the Old City of Jerusalem) for hundreds of years, and we are proud of it. This is our connection to Christianity. Our reverence for Jesus is something inborn in
urprise, that I'd be willing to have the meeting in Arafat’s cabin if that’s what he preferred. The next afternoon, I went there for tea and baklava. Abu Mazen, his top political adviser and the main 353 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011824 / BARAK / 68 Palestinian architect of Oslo, was with him, along with a more jun
ast Jerusalem: Eizaria, El-Ram and, most importantly, Abu Dis, since from there you could see the golden dome of the mosque above the Western Wall in the Old City. I understood why the villages were politically important for him. But in practical terms, I also knew I’d have to secure the support of the cabinet
urprise, that I'd be willing to have the meeting in Arafat's cabin if that's what he preferred. The next afternoon, I went there for tea and baklava. Abu Mazen, his top political adviser and the main 353 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028201 / BARAK / 68 Palestinian architect of Oslo, was with him, along with a more junio
ast Jerusalem: Eizaria, El-Ram and, most importantly, Abu Dis, since from there you could see the golden dome of the mosque above the Western Wall in the Old City. I understood why the villages were politically important for him. But in practical terms, I also knew I'd have to secure the support of the cabinet
Entities connected to both Abu Mazen and the Old City

Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Barack Obama
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Hebron
LOCATION
Lebanon
LOCATION
United States
LOCATION
George W. Bush
PERSONMediterranean
LOCATION
Cairo
LOCATIONthe West Bank
LOCATIONthe Gaza Strip
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSON
West Bank
LOCATION
Damascus
LOCATION
the Golan Heights
LOCATIONSinai
LOCATION
Mahmoud Abbas
PERSON
Morocco
LOCATION