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Temple to be rebuilt? “I’m doing my best.”
the most secretive real estate broker in the world, a man whose life is at risk at any given moment,
the message of the Temple, is that happiness and wealth will be shared by all people.”
‘An Arab found selling land to Jews will be killed.’”
hide the identity of the real seller, or we give the seller a good cover story:
“In Jerusalem: dozens. Rest of Israel: hundreds.”
“In 1997. Ras al-Amud was my first.”
The man lives comfortably. God takes care of His brokers and provides for them well.
director of Israel Land Fund.”
Jews are not allowed to build in Jerusalem for the past four-and-a-half years. Arabs, Muslim and Christian, are allowed.
Jewish holy books. If you do, they will take them away from you.”
“What kind of question is this? Of course Bibi!”
“The Arabs here like me, they love me. They call me ‘Assad’ [lion].”
what’s real and what’s not.
The Arabs like the Germans and when a German church approaches them they are comfortable
attempting to talk with Arabs and Arieh lives with them.
two young Palestinians have stabbed an Orthodox
What has happened now that is making the EU get busy with this story?
Hanan Ashrawi. I want to see this lady.
and enter Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian government.
Germany invests huge amounts of money into building the Palestinian state.
kharta means fake or imagined. The Hebrew slang originates, I think, from this very map, where even
he spoke about the uniqueness of Israel.
that dugri comes from the Arabic
to immediately extinguish my cigarettes. “It’s Ramadan!” they yelled at
Hanan is Christian, and perhaps that’s why she doesn’t want a mosque in her office.
Smiles end just before the interview starts, when faces change to serious.
we want to live in peace and in dignity and respect for human rights.
dispersion and exile or living under the boot of a military occupation,
you have to deal with issues of exile and dispersion, but at the same time you have to maintain your humanity
a sense of exclusion,
and we have been described by our adversaries,
person who lives at a distance and a woman of cold personality.
She is smart and well spoken. Unlike Arieh King,
she speaks long sentences and has a rich vocabulary
long sentences,
have to give up most of their land and that another state will be created.”
So in a sense we have become victims of those who have been victims of European anti-Semitism.”
Hanan is an educated, erudite person, and I must view her from this angle.
people of the “longest Christian tradition in the world.”
many Christians are here, 20 percent? “It went down from 20 percent to 1.5 or 2 percent for a variety of reasons.”
My professor is getting lost.
This doesn’t look good, and she knows it, but quickly she regains her composure:
that when I smoked on the street today I was yelled at.
Hanan the Erudite knows what happened here thousands of years ago, but not what’s happening today,
“but there was not, you know, a state.”
Was there a Jewish Temple here?
there existed a pluralistic state by the name of Palestine, and Jewish tribes came in
no matter what her Christian Bible says, and nobody has ever proved that a Jewish Temple
promised my daughter, when we started the peace process, and my young daughter said: ‘I lent my mother to peace, the peace process,
