A lot of locals and expats rave about Falafel al Quds on Rainbow St.
Khalid engaged and defeated them in the Battle of Abu-al-Quds on 15 October 634 and returned with tons of looted booty from the fair and hundreds of Roman prisoners.
These range from "Ya Quds" (O Jerusalem), sung by an Iraqi heart-throb, Kazem al-Saher, to "Ala Bab al Quds" (At the Doors of Jerusalem), crooned by Egypt's Hani Shaker, to a hit single by two Egyptian starlets who berate Arabs for failing to match words of support for the intifada with deeds.
How can you build the foundations of the state with the help of the same people who colonised these countries before?" At a talk this month in the House of Poetry in Paris, he held up a photograph published in al-Quds of some US soldiers in Iraq apparently desecrating the dead.
From London, Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor of Al Quds Al Arabi, wrote a column under the headline "Please Do Not Speak on Our Behalf".
The structure, said Sari Nusseibeh, the president of Al Quds and a moderate Palestinian voice, is a "concrete wall of rejection".
"A thousand martyrs, what did they die for?" Still, the area directly north of Al Quds Street was believed to have had a heavy concentration of roadside bombs, presenting a substantial challenge for an Iraqi force.
Hamza Khatib, the manager of Al Quds hospital in Aleppo, told a Reuters photographer the hospital had recorded four deaths from gas poisoning and 55 injuries.
On Tuesday morning, Iraqi soldiers and armor vehicles ventured north of Al Quds Street, the major thoroughfare that borders the Shiite enclave, farther into areas previously controlled by the Mahdi Army.
Soldiers from an American Army civil affairs unit in Sadr City saw the missile ascending and reported that it seemed to have been launched from north of Al Quds Street, where the American military is building a large concrete wall to prevent militia fighters from infiltrating south.
For the first time in the history of Jerusalem, a non-Jewish Iranian of Persian heritage was invited to present a scientific topic in two parts, part A in East Jerusalem, at the Palestinian University of Al Quds and part B in West Jerusalem, at the Jewish University of Hebrew-Hadassah, to be attended by both sides of the security wall.
