“He who rules the mountain, rules the land,” said nationalist Israeli poet Uri Zvi Greenberg. And the East Jerusalemites said: He who rules Al - Aqsa , rules Jerusalem . There is no other place in Israel that is as clearly Palestinian as East Jerusalem . The Arabs in Israel have undergone a process of Israelization and institutionalization, the Palestinians in the West Bank are under military rule and in Gaza they live in a prison. In effect, the only Palestinians who are free of “Israeliness” in all its forms are the East Jerusalemites . Not only in terms of...