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| | Commentary Magazine - Building Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | In the alleys of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City it could almost be Herod's time, though not in the center of town, where new high-rise office and apartment buildings have punctured a series of holes in the city's once lowly skyline. |
 | | ...Ask a Jerusalem Arab and he will reply with a shrug that one has to live, and that, in any case, the final disposition of the city is quite out of his hands and will be ultimately decided elsewhere -in Cairo, in Amman, in Washington, in Moscow, by the Israelis... |
 | | ...No doubt, too, the decision to preserve the Old City area in toto was facilitated by the fact that it is relatively easy to isolate a walled enclave from its urban surroundings and to treat it as a problem in itself... |
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