Palestinians in Jerusalem fall into an extremely unusual political space that theoretically gives them some access to two different political systems, the Israeli one and the Palestinian one. In reality, they are not able to access either system in a way that would open a path to any adequate form of self-representation, let alone political power.
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Hatem Ishaq Husseini
A professor of Islamic literature who returned to his birthplace, Jerusalem, after 25 years of exile to serve as the first president of Al-Quds University