Jerusalem: The Biography

Nusseibeh family, 177n, 263, 298, 308n, 309, 361, 420, 442, 488, 491, 520

Anwar al-Nusseibeh, 442, 465–6, 468–9, 475–6, 479, 481n, 488, 491

Hazem al-Nusseibeh, 308n, 420n, 442, 444–5, 448, 456, 483, 488

Obadah al-Nusseibeh, 520

Sari al-Nusseibeh, 442, 483, 486–9, 491, 515, 518

Wajeeh al-Nusseibeh, 517–20

Obadiah of Bertinoro, Rabbi, 288

Obama, Barack, President, 512, 516n

Octavia, 82n

Octavian, see Augustus, Emperor

Odessa, 339, 353, 367, 383, 386, 421

Officers Club, 442, 464

Olivet, 288, 338, 365, 444n

Olmert, Ehud, 508, 515–16

Olympic Games, 124

Omar, 172, 174–8

Omar II, Caliph, 186, 255, 291, 304, 420n, 508, 520

Onias II, 56, 61

Onias IV, 66n, 67n, 70n

Operation Agatha, 465

Operation Nachshon, 471

Operation Tariq, 494

Ophel hill, 15, 21n, 22, 24, 355, 390, 393

Orad II, King of Parthia, 73, 76n

Order of Caroline, 323

Order of St Lazarus, 242n

Order of the Holy Sepulchre, 320

Orient Express, 376

Orient House, 364, 505

Orleans, 238

Orthodox Church, 157, 160, 189, 255, 486, 488

and religious conflict, 201, 296, 299–300, 310, 320, 331, 339–40, 343, 348, 424, 488, 519–20

Ortuq bin Aksab, 203

Oslo peace talks, 506, 507n, 514

Osorkon, pharaoh, 31

ostraca, 42n

Othman, 178, 181

Ottoman Cossacks, 343n

Ottoman empire, 296–7, 326–30, 333–4, 341, 343, 361–2, 380

military defeat, 416–26

and the Three Pashas, 394–401, 403, 415n

Ottoman Land Law, 364n

Outrejourdain, 243, 264

Outremer, 215, 225–32, 249

William’s history, 239, 245n

Overcomers, 364–6

Oxford, 333, 442, 445

Oz, Amos, 438, 441, 444, 457, 465, 467, 483, 486–7, 516

Pacorus, Prince, 76

Pact of Omar, 177n

Pahlavan knights, 76n

Pakistan, 53–4

Palace Hotel, 441

Palaestina, 137, 149, 154, 165

Palermo, 218, 266–7, 270n

Palestine (nation and state), 19n, 380, 431, 453–4, 478, 504, 513

British Mandate, 428, 431, 433, 465, 473

partition, 466–7, 475

Palestine Arab Party, 449

Palestine Exploration Fund, 354–5, 363n

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 491, 503–4, 505–6, 508

Palestine National Council, 478n

Palestine Post, 457, 465, 469

Palestine Society, 517n

Palestinian Authority, 364, 507, 510

Palestinian Christians, 218

Palm Sunday, 191, 218, 227, 387

Palmach, 456–7, 463, 469, 471, 474, 479

Palmerston, Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount, xxv, 331–2, 334

Palmyran empire, 140

Paltiel, 194–5

pan-Arabism, 486, 489, 504

Pannychis, 89

paradise, 48n

Paris, 150, 207n, 238, 285, 339, 347n, 352, 373, 380n, 462

Versailles peace talks, 426–8

Parker, Monty, (later Earl of Morley), 388–93

Parry, Sir Hubert, 321n, 426

Parsons, Levi, 337

Parthians, 68, 73, 75–8, 81, 130, 133, 139

Pasargadae, 49

Paschal II, Pope, 219

Passfield, Lord (Sidney Webb), 438

Passover, 35, 40, 50, 59, 159, 324n, 360, 363n, 369, 388, 471, 517

and blood libel, 333, 336

Jesus and, 98–102, 107–9, 148

and longing for Jerusalem, 139, 374

St Paul, 117–18, 121, 143

Paul, Emperor of Russia, 342

Paul VI, Pope, 491

Paula, 151–2

Paulinus, 155–6

Peel, William, 1st

Earl, 448

Peel, Sir Robert, 334

Pentecost, 103n, 109

Pepys, Samuel, 304

Peres, Shimon, President, 494, 506–7, 514, 515

Pergami, Bartolomeo, 322–3

Persephone, 385

Persepolis, 50n

Persia, 63, 181, 458

Persian Gulf, 35

Persians, 46–53, 73, 75, 139–40, 150, 161–4, 288

Petah Tikvah, 374

St Peter, 98, 102n, 104, 109, 115, 121, 151

Peter, Bishop of Winchester, 270

Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, 146n, 340

Peter, King of Yugoslavia, 456

Peter the Georgian, 156n

St Petersburg, 339, 350, 368, 370, 380, 386, 415

Petra, 71, 98

Petronius, 112

Pharisees, 70, 72, 98, 100, 102, 105

Pharos lighthouse, 55

Phasael, 74

Phasael tower, 84, 93

Pheroras, 81, 88n

Philip II Augustus, King, 257–8, 260n

Philip II, King of Macedon, 52

Philip II, King of Spain, 278n

Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, 444n, 454n

Philipp, Prince of Eulenburg, 376–8

Philippa, Princess, 238

Philippi, Battle of, 75

Philistines, 18–20, 23, 137

Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, 99n

Phoenicia, 81

Phoenician temples, 28

Phoenicians, 22, 26, 39n

photography, 363, 378

Picot, Francois-Georges, 405, 420, 424

Pilgrim Strangers, 338

Pinsk, 409

Pinsker, Leo, 374

Pitt, William, the Elder, Earl of Chatham, 413

Pitt, William, the Younger, 322

plague, 256, 258, 332

Plato, 190n, 446

Plehve, Vyecheslav von, 380

Pliny the Elder, 3

, 381, 383

Plumer, Field Marshal Hebert, 1st Viscount, 436

Poland, 291, 293–4, 298, 301, 311n, 461, 486n

Polish Jews, 307–8, 357, 359, 375n, 441, 457

polo, 237, 251, 442

Pompeii, 119n

Pompey the Great, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, 6, 70–3

Pontius Pilate, 99n, 100, 102, 104–5, 107–8, 110, 115, 119, 122, 135n

Pontus, 88n

Pools of Solomon, 329

popes, 151, 159

Popillius Laenas, 62

Poppaea, 120–1

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 501

Port Said, 444n

Portugal, 294

Postal Café, 444

Potemkin, Prince Gregory, 311, 374

Potter’s Field, 109

prisoners, ransoming of, 213

Pro-Jerusalem Society, 423

prophets, 19

prostitution, 144, 226–7, 258, 398, 421, 424

Protestant Churches, 157, 296–7, 299

Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 380n, 383, 423–4, 433, 456n

Prussia, 285, 334, 363

Ptolemais (Acre), 67, 70n, 78, 124

Ptolemy I Soter, King, 54–5, 57n, 58n

Ptolemy II Philadelphos, King, 55, 56n

Ptolemy III Eugertes, King, 56