bernard wasserstein

Bernard Wasserstein (born 1948) is a professor of history. He is currently teaching at the University of Chicago, but has taught previously at the University of Glasgow, Oxford University, and Brandeis University. He wrote the book The Israelis and the Palestinians -- Why do they fight? Can they stop? (September 2003), a work that looks at the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in five chapters: People, Society, Environment, Territory, and Dynamics of Political Change. His previous book was (September 2001).

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Referring to the Muslim attitude towards Jerusalem in the 10th-12th centuries: "as so often in the history of Jerusalem, heightened religious fervour may be explained in large measure by political necessity." (Divided Jerusalem, p11)

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