Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel called on Israel and the Palestinians to postpone negotiations about Jerusalem for a generation. "Perhaps in 20 years," he wrote in an Op-Ed in Wednesday’s New York Times, the Palestinians "will then understand why the Jewish soul carries within it the wound and the love of a city whose keys are protected by its memory."
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