Inhumane, Intolerant, Unclean
Ian Gilmour, 31 October 1996
A History of Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
by Karen Armstrong.
HarperCollins, 474 pp., £20, July 1996,0 00 255522 0 Show More
by Karen Armstrong.
HarperCollins, 474 pp., £20, July 1996,
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years
by Israel Shahak.
Pluto, 118 pp., £11.99, April 1994,9780745308180 Show More
by Israel Shahak.
Pluto, 118 pp., £11.99, April 1994,
City of the Great King: Jerusalem from David to the Present
edited by Nitza Rosovsky.
Harvard, 562 pp., £25.50, April 1996,0 674 13190 8 Show More
edited by Nitza Rosovsky.
Harvard, 562 pp., £25.50, April 1996,
Jerusalem in the 20th Century
by Martin Gilbert.
Chatto, 400 pp., £20, May 1996,0 7011 3070 9 Show More
by Martin Gilbert.
Chatto, 400 pp., £20, May 1996,
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
by Norman Finkelstein.
Verso, 230 pp., £39.95, December 1995,1 85984 940 7 Show More
by Norman Finkelstein.
Verso, 230 pp., £39.95, December 1995,
To Rule Jerusalem
by Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht.
Cambridge, 554 pp., £29.95, June 1996,0 521 44046 7 Show More
by Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht.
Cambridge, 554 pp., £29.95, June 1996,
“... What exactly is a ‘holy city’ or, for that matter, a ‘holy see’? If Jerusalem is the prime example of the first and Rome the only example of the second, their holiness clearly does not reside in the behaviour of either their rulers or the ruled. More evil has been done in Jerusalem than in many, if not most, places on earth, and in Rome Papal conduct and government has sometimes been anything but holy – in the mid-18th century the city’s 150,000 inhabitants averaged four hundred murders a year ... ”
