Moshe Maoz is professor emeritus of Islamic and Middle
Eastern Studies, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He
is the editor of The Meeting of Civilizations: Muslim,
Christian, and Jewish (Sussex Academic Press, 2009), and
of Muslim Attitudes to Jews and Israel: The Ambivalences
of Rejection, Antagonism, Tolerance and Cooperation
(Sussex Academic Press, 2010).
The creation of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital is a key step in
mending relations between Israel and the Arab and Islamic worlds