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‘Their appeal, Malak says, was based on demonstrating how important it was for her to have her family by her side. The request was supported by the testimony of various experts: psychologists, sociologists, and other professionals. The main obstacle was the idea that her loved ones might be “a security threat,” and at each hearing some of the opposing lawyers would refer to them as dangerous people.’

‘In the UN partition plan, Jerusalem was envisioned as a corpus separatum, a city under international administration, but this has never actually come to pass. Israel had been allocated 55 percent of historic Palestine, but instead grabbed 78 percent by 1949, leaving the “Arab state” imagined by the UN, and opposed by the Arabs themselves, only 22 percent and thus grossly violating the terms of the partition.’