Who Are The Palestinians " III "

Growing Up as Edward Said’s Daughter: Najla Said on Palestinian Identity and Activism at Columbia​


 

Growing Up as Edward Said’s Daughter: Najla Said on Palestinian Identity and Activism at Columbia​


 
you mean citizens of the British Mandate, using money that says "Land of Israel" on it.


Arab-Jewish relations in the Old City had always been good. Most of the property in the quarter was Arab-owned, and one of its familiar sights was the Arab rent collector making his way from house to house, pausing in each for the rent and a ritual cup of coffee. Here the Islamic respect for men of religion had been naturally extended to the quarter's scholars in their yeshivas. As for the quarter's poor artisans and shopkeepers, the most natural of bonds, poverty, tied them to their Arab neighbors.
Larry Collins, O Jerusalem
 

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