11. But the Israelis have insisted on maintaining sovereignty over the entire holy city while granting limited control of certain areas of East Jerusalem to the Palestinians. 12. Gingrich has supported moving the United States Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, even though Palestinians stake a claim to the holy city. 13. In any year, religious zealots are practically mainstream in Jerusalem, a holy city for Christians, Jews and Muslims. 14. In ever-embattled Jerusalem, Jews of different religious convictions are locked in a struggle over whose vision for the holy city will prevail. 15. In Karbala, another Shiite holy city, nooses dangle from the ceiling of one mosque. 16. In the streets, right-wing and left-wing Israelis and disgruntled Palestinians scrapped over the future of the disputed Holy city. 17. Israelis and Palestinians both claim the holy city as their capital. 18. Jordanians, armed with credit cards and shopping bags, have made the Jerusalem Mall a customary stop on their rounds of the holy city. 19. Kerbala is a Shiite holy city, and Iraqi Shiite groups in the region have a history of opposition to Saddam, who is a Sunni. 20. KfarShaul, the mental health center, had reserved beds for foreigners struck by doomsday delusions or the more commonplace holy city derangement labeled the Jerusalem Syndrome. |