Pointing at a framed newspaper article hanging on the wall near his office desk, Walid Dajani, manager of the Imperial Hotel, said disgustedly, "I first heard about the deal from the media." Dajani is a Muslim native of Jerusalem. His family began managing the Imperial Hotel in July 1949, when they received protected tenant status from the Greek Orthodox Church. "I thought it was a hoax," added Dajani after pausing to exhale a long drag into the expanse of his dark office, which overlooks Omar Ibn al Hitab square just inside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Christian Quarter. Dajani was referring...