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Rashid I. Khalidi, Ph.D.
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Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies
Director of the Middle East Institute
Columbia University
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Pro Palestinian Sovereignty in East Jerusalem
to the question "What are the solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?"
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"What are the most important elements regarding Jerusalem in a potential end of conflict agreement?
Unimpeded and free access to Jerusalem for Palestinians, and for Muslim and Christian Arabs from other Arab countries, as well as for Muslims from other countries. This can only mean access under Palestinian control.
A satisfactory and mutually acceptable regime for control over and security in the Muslim, Christian and Jewish holy places in Jerusalem.* This will require significant changes in the status quo.
Palestinian sovereignty over Arab East Jerusalem (the largest Arab city in the West Bank), as a single unit, with contiguity of the city's urban areas, and open road connections with adjacent Palestinian regions of the West Bank to the north, south, and east."
* "The bottom line as far as a satisfactory regime for holy places in Jerusalem is concerned involves one of two options, in my view. One is Palestinian control of some sort over all Muslim and Christian holy places, sacred sites, and places of religious significance in both East and West Jerusalem, with matching Israeli control over similar Jewish sites on both sides of the city. These would include both the Jewish Mount of Olives Cemetery in East Jerusalem, and the badly neglected historic Muslim Mamilla Cemetery in West Jerusalem. Arrangements for the security of worshippers that do not infringe on the security of local residents would also have to be worked out.
The other option is the establishment of a neutral and mutually acceptable international, or possibly inter-faith, authority over all sacred sites in both East and West Jerusalem, and perhaps beyond them in the rest of Palestine/Israel. This could be either a temporary or permanent arrangement, and would have to be coupled with mutually acceptable security arrangements - possibly with an international component - both for worshippers and other citizens."
"The Centrality of Jerusalem to an End of Conflict Agreement"
NAAA-ADC Panel: Middle East Peace-Making in a Post Clinton Era
February 2, 2001
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Experts
Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Counsul Generals, heads of government, members of legislative bodies, and Ph.D.'s with significant involvement in, or related to, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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| Involvement: |
- Director of the Middle East Institute
- Professor of Arab Studies specializing in the following areas:
History of Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt; The Growth of Nation-State; Nationalism in the Arab World; Problems of Modern Middle East Historiography.
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| Education: |
Ph.D., Oxford University, Modern History, 1974
B.A., Yale University, History, 1970
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none listed
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Books:
- Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East, Beacon Press, 2004.
- Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness, Columbia University Press, 1997.
- The Origins of Arab Nationalism (Co-editor), Columbia University Press, 1991.
- Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War. Columbia University Press, 1986.
- Palestine and the Gulf (Co-editor), Institute for Palestine Studies, 1982.
- British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914. Ithaca Press for St. Antony's College, 1980.
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