European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The in unified Jerusalem by Marcus Eliason associated press  holy Sites dome of the Rock on mount Moriah and the wailing Wall. Is one atty but a mental Gulf Between the City is arabs and jews lingers 10 years after israeli forces unified it. Geographically Jerusalem is definitely United says Jama Abu Tou Ameh an israeli Arab lawyer who moved his practice to Jerusa Lem after israeli forces took Over the Arab sector of the City on june 28, 1967, in the six Day  there is no unification of Peoples. No Arab is truly Happy with israeli Rule and i think things will get  such comments annoy Jerusalem s jewish mayor Teddy  we less United than the French and English in Montreal the language rioters in Brussels the catholics and protestants of Belfast what More do you want that every jew kiss an Arab on his Way to work israelis celebrate the unification anniversary thursday in accordance with the jewish lunar Calendar. Politically the atty is a pariah. Its status As a unified Metropolis and is Rael s capital remains  by most foreign nations. It is called the City of peace and has been conquered 37 times. Hearty 3,500 years after King David founded it Jerusa Lem s ownership is As hotly disputed As Ever and no solution is in sight. A City of great natural Beauty in which 365,000 people live it is unique in the diver sity Bftts population. In its Sanctity for jews christians and moslem. Pope Paul i has suggested making Jerusalem an intimation Atcitty under United nations  israelis reject this idea on grounds that jews have been denied Access to their Mous and equal status administering their holy Sites independently. Christian pilgrims flock to Jerusalem at eastertide. Moslem consider the City to be their third Holst shrine after Mecca and Medina. Last november King Khaled of saudi Arabia exhorted moslem to wrest Jerusalem from the israelis. On the surface Jerusalem s 260,000jews and 96,000 arabs coexist. Thousands of arabs Cross from their sector daily to jobs in the Western jewish half of the City. Jews flock eastward to Arab shops. Arabs visit jewish doctors. Jews take their cars to Arab mechanics. There is no unemployment and Arab workers earn hefty israeli wages and health benefits while the merchant Middle class has been hit by Israel s 38 per cent in  arabs still reminisce fondly of times when life was cheaper and less frenetic under the Rule of Jordan from the Hashe mite capital in Amman. An invisible Barrier is always near. It is Felt during municipal elections which the arabs Boycott. When jews celebrate Jeru Salem s unification arabs mourn Jordani an War dead. Arabs use israeli currency but quietly Squirrel away jordanian dinars for the Day they believe Arab Rule will return to the  can openly criticize the israeli administration they Call it an occupation regime without fear of punishment. A Lively arabic press prints anti Israel tirades unhindered by military censorship a so Long As it does not incite violence. Tal of Israel. They say that Italy would never agree that Rome be withdrawn fro italian National sovereignly and Given Over to an International Catholic Rule that saudi Arabia would never agree but Mecca be withdrawn from saudi arabian sovereignty and placed under International islamic Rule. Israelis argue that primarily israeli sovereignty Over the City is based on historic rights and does no conflict with the religious interests of christianity and islam. There is no state religion in Israel and All religious communities have Auto no Jerusalem s walled old City. Between ims and the israeli Victory in 1967, Walls divided Jerusalem barbed wire and Concrete barriers bisected the City much As Berlin is today. After Britain gave up its Man Date for Palestine Jordan s Arab legion under a British commander occupied the Eastern part of Jerusa Lem in May ims during Israel s War of Independence Annon Jankner. An israeli recalls you came around a Corner into Agron Street and there was this Wall of tin that just stopped you dead. It was the ultimate finality. Your whole world seemed to halt before this Sheet of  were Cut off from hallowed jewish shrines the wailing Wall the Temple mount and the mount of olives which came under jordanian control in the 1mb armistice pact that divided the City although the agreement had guaranteed israeli Access to the  jordanian Rule the ancient jewish Quarter in the old City now being reconstructed was Laid waste 58 synagogues were destroyed or desecrated. In the cemetery on the mount of olives Hal Lowed to jews for thousands of years 38. Odo of the 50,000 tombstones were torn up to pave a Road build fences and install la Trines israelis  used to take binoculars and go up on a Hill to gaze at the wailing  re Calls Rachel Golan sky a jewish nurse. But when the Walls came Down the hostility that had accumulated Over 19 years seemed to melt into nostalgia shy hand shakes reunions of jews and arabs who had been Friendly before ims. Issa Abu Delhaya a 3s-year-ld Arab lawyer spent the first Day of unification retracing his boyhood route to school. Teacher Ibrahim Oua Yus discovered that israeli were not the monsters i had been taught to  to solidify their annexation of East Jerusalem Israel has ringed the Arab sector with housing complexes for 40,000 jews. A vast Industrial Park has gone up on Arab land North of the City. The israelis have endeavoured to Sepa rate Jerusalem from the rest of the israeli occupied West Bank of the Jordan River by extending israeli Law Over the Arab sector giving Arab cars different License plates from those of the West Bank and offering Jerusalem arabs a vote for City Hall. But the arabs have remained Loyal to the West Bank and through their Freedom of travel across the Jordan River retain allegiance to the Arab world rather than  jewish apartment blocks were built on expropriated Arab land creating resentment that still  arabs Are subject to spot checks in the streets and bothersome Secu Rity roadblocks. Arrests of political activists arid their exile to Jordan have left Jerusalem s arabs without a Strong United leadership. The arabs also must contend with the dominant Western israeli culture that intrudes upon their closed Patri Archal society. Arab women dress less modestly in the past. Bars have opened in Arab Jerusalem to the dismay of strict adherents to islam s no alcohol Laws. The movie a swedish girl recently hit East Jerusalem after a successful Tel Aviv run and outraged moslem elders because of its sexual sex  jewish boys Are too Frank com Plains a Young Arab woman. They whistle at you on the Street. I would have nothing to do with them. Or. Maccabi Salzberger. A jewish physician who treats Arab patients blames israelis for the Lack of social integration saying they Are insensitive and prone to generalizations like never Trust an  arabs have evolved a Complex code of behaviour. For instance it is considered treason to sell land to a jew but legitimate to help build jewish apartment blocks on Arab  is treason to give information to israeli Security police but All right to join the israeli police  reasoning behind these seeming paradoxes is Subtle the Arab lives under the opposing pressures of israeli Rule an Clandestine Plo groups who sometimes firebomb Homes or cars of Arab Moder ates. The Arab sees his Mission As Sou Moud to stay put in his City. Being steadfast under occupation gives him the right to enjoy the benefits of that occupation. Some israelis worry about the degree to which arabs have taken Over the menial jobs in Jerusalem garbage collection construction deliveries without moving higher on the social scale. Nurse Golan sky says that All the order lies launderers and Cooks at Hadassah Hospital where she works Are Arab. Sup pose there was a War and they went on strike. The Hospital would be paralysed at the worst time possible she says. Jerusalem s wont problem seems to be the Temple mount where the Bible says judgment Day will begin. Mount Moriah the heart of the walled old City was once the site of the first and second jewish Temple and is called Horam eth Sharif in arabic enclosure of the Noble Sanctuary the site today of two important moslem mosques the dome of the Rock and a Asa. It symbolizes the Arab israeli conflict in microcosm. Below the mount is the Western Wall or wailing Walla surviving remnant of the Rampart that circled the second Temple which was destroyed by roman legionnaires in the year 70. Just a Short stroll away Are the via Dolorosa the path christians believe was followed by Jesus on the Way to his crucifixion and the Church of the holy sepulchre which is on the spot where tradition has it he was placed in his  fanatics occasionally try to con duct prayers on the mount in Defiance of israeli bans. The moslem clergy takes these Pray ins As part of a plot to destroy their mosques and rebuild the jewish Temple. These suspicions have triggered the worst riots in the City. Yet jews Are Arab Are United in a fear that Jerusalem will be partitioned once again. Jerusalem was never divided before1948," said Arab lawyer Abu Delhaya it is  or. Salzberger says it is Incon Ceiva  mayor Kollek says 10.000 jew would oppose it with guns and you d have to Send in the . Army to Divide Jerusa  wednesday May 11, 1977 the stars and stripes Poge 13