A European Union report on East Jerusalem is at:
http://australiansforpalestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/EU-Report-Nov2009-1.pdf
it concludes after discussing the effects on Christians in Old Jerusalem with this phrase:
about Jerusalem's "iconic significance as a place where civilizations meet rather than clash."
The meeting of civilizations (well, the three faiths of the book) was what I experienced in my meanderings around the old city.
I found this report very disturbing, but really saying everything that we had been told and that was "under the surface" in Jerusalem.
http://australiansforpalestine.com/breaking-news-israel-annexing-east-jerusalem-says-eu
The only strange comment I saw was about Israel letting in an influx of tourists onto the Dome of the Rock (Haram al-Sharif); without any control by Islamic authorities. That was not the experience that Fred and I had 12 years ago, being unable to get in then. This year the various holidays confused things and meant that no one from our group was able to enter. My suspicion of the tramway is still there.
The Guardian also has a report at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/07/israel-palestine-eu-report-jerusalem
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