Two Personal Six Day War Stories Illustrate Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

This week, Israelis commemorate the 40th anniversary of their 1967 capture of East Jerusalem, during the Six-Day War. Why has Jerusalem been such a stumbling block in peace negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis?

Two surprising events immediately following the war serve as a symbol of the deep-rooted ties to Jerusalem of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and the former PLO president, Yasser Arafat. Vision publisher David Hulme explains in Two Men, One City, at http://www.vision.org, that although these two key leaders are now gone, the identities of Palestinians and Israelis continue to be bound up in the history of this divided city, fueling the ongoing conflic View the rest of this article