Shepherd Hotel
The Shepherd Hotel (also: Shefer Hotel ) is a former hotel in Sheikh Jarrah , a district of East Jerusalem .
history
The building was built in the 1930s for Mohammed Amin al-Husseini , the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who did not live there himself and who gave the house to his private secretary and historian George Antonius . Antonius wrote his main work The Arab Awakening ( The Arab Awakening ) here.
After Antonius died in 1942, the Shepherd Hotel became the meeting place for the Jerusalem elite. After the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 , it was taken over by Jordan and temporarily used as a hostel for pilgrims until Israel conquered East Jerusalem in the Six Day War in 1967 . In 1985, the US-based Jewish investor Irving Moskowitz bought the building and renamed it the Shefer Hotel . Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee demonstratively attended a dinner at the hotel in 2009 to promote Israel's settlement plans.
On January 10, 2011, the Shepherd Hotel was demolished except for a small, listed section in order to build apartments for Jewish settlers. "This worrying development undermines the peace efforts to achieve a two-state solution, " criticized US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton . "In addition, the demolition of the logic of a sensible agreement on the future status of Jerusalem between the two sides contradicts." The EU Foreign Affairs Representative Catherine Ashton reminded that "the settlements in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel are illegal under international law".
Web links
- Peter Münch: “Shepherd Hotel. Herberge für Siedler “ , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 11, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ^ "Republican Huckabee supports Israeli settlements" , in: ynetnews.com , August 17, 2009.
- ↑ a b "Dispute over a hotel in East Jerusalem" , in: Zeit online , January 10, 2011.
Coordinates: 31 ° 47 ′ 36 ″ N , 35 ° 14 ′ 2 ″ E