oh best his son horatio vesta, was living in london. he decided to return to help site. the hotel. horatio had grown up in jerusalem, but left to london at 17, he became a lawyer and married a high spirited actress. when he returned to jerusalem, horatio promised his wife valentine, that he would stay only 6 months. he reorganized the whole structure of the hotel, and he started to try and build it up as a, as a hotel with mo, commercialized um facilities. and he convinced my grandmother that we should have summer to have drinks a kind of bah, because before that you were you could we were allowed alcohol. but on, if you had it in your room, when the sunsets and jerusalem, the hotel turns on its light. in the summer, the garden bar is

a favorite gathering place. it welcomes israelis and palestinians, locals and tourists from all over the world. at the hotel de mood is one of hospitality to all a crash vest and managed to avert bankruptcy. but he felt he was still needed at the hotel. his wife joined him with a heavy heart. living in the living out here was great for horatio as a native arabic speaker and just felt was coming home. and it was not such fun for thou, who didn't really like it here and was very fond of england. so it was tough. valentine refused to give up. eventually she found a new passion. the hotel's garden. oh, she plunged into her project with enthusiasm, designing the landscaping, composing the flower beds oh,

if it's paid off. today the grounds are known as one of the most lovely of the wolves hotel gardens only, but the maggie no in war shall geena blue her, but i knew nothing about gardening. when i started here go over, they were only olive trees here, telemachus read this there, but that was very tough. she explained everything to me or she gathered all the seats herself behind him. she loved flowers and collected them from all over the world. come vance and val told me to use lighter colors so you could see them at night. i am at lunch time seemed report white, pink and bright red. any assist? let me come out of rainbow. la mamma chromosome. not sophomore boy.

in 1967, at the situation again, grew tense. the arab states began to mobilize, fearing an attack on 3 fronts. israel decided to launch a preemptive strike. on june 5th, 1967. israel began an air attack against its neighbors, egypt, jordan and syria. during what became known as the 6 day war, israel also captured east jerusalem. the marine no haute to defer. i lowered that the, the hotel was right on the front line visit. a few rockets hit the square in front of the hotel mirror that there were no casualties. who am latoya? the measure was my country a giraffe were but when the israelis captured east jerusalem early in the thir were

no problems for the hotel. and here, man, everything went on as normal, a muscular ladder to lumala over to, oh, is ralph security tree good now rolled over a 1000000 palestinians in the west bank, gaza and east jerusalem. the american colony hotel remain neutral. ooh oh, there's the spotted. vesta died in 1968. the hospitality in warmth had succeeded in transforming the american colony into the american colony hotel. ah. ready his son horatio and his wife valentine, took over the helm slowly, transforming the hotel into

a luxury establishment. they installed a swimming pool and fitness room to accommodate the wishes of a new generation of tourists. ah. busy we started to get a reputation for food and so people started to come out, juice started coming up from tel aviv to non cursor through him at the only place that we were. we were importing lobsters. so these rallies could come in a lobster. the american cousin i asked when she asked my father, i cuz they used to keep the lobsters in the fraser. and i asked my wife, i said, what if nobody lodestone you his i said, how did you deal with the loves? he said, we get it out of the freezer. we got you out of the fraser every day. and i said, well, what if nobody, it's a lobster, though we put it back in the freezer these

days, there's no re frozen lobster on the menu. but you won't find haute cuisine and 5 star shifts in the kitchen. he either the menu is unpretentious in international featuring fresh fish and vegetables. med sir, and club sandwiches. in our planning to admiral guinea products to the menu for hotel news with the times and the wishes of the guests. in the 1980s the swiss hotelier became general manager, perhaps yet another not to the principle of neutrality. don't go to excel geopolitics, login with your a to split and centering the geopolitical context, especially here in jerusalem. so i think it was very wise to turn to switch management because switzerland plays a neutral role all over the world. no, no, the holiday apollo. morning. ursula bell, many events were held in the hotel book,

including many meetings of diplomat will in all of their book with hawk or song, little delegate more. mm hm. the let, the glasses ask, as i tell group, took the management of the american colony hotel for the spafford is who remain in all major decisions, many to hotel staff, a palestinians. they went prospects in jerusalem limited and any one lucky enough to find a job he intends to stay in the hotel exists amidst a state of uncertainty, israeli military road blocks and violent unrest, and not uncommon when egon done for followed, but this bank up get eagle food, when there was any sort of incident and the west bank was sealed off, i had employees who had to travel 3 to 4 hours just to get here for c vauder stuff

for them. it was really critical because they weren't supposed to be here. she had to meet, he is on duty even if they had been caught and they would have been legal consequences . her tissue list she consequence gave no. they take a lot on themselves to keep the hotel running will allow from to hold. the american colony hotel has succeeded in what remains elusive elsewhere in the country. a peaceful coexistence and no bother with a $1000000.00 a i can really say that the management takes very good care of the entire staff of yahoo. it doesn't matter if they're jews, christians or muslims shipped them the matter they care about us. and also about our economic situation. was athena and i'm headed from sweden guns. many employees live under difficult circumstances. mister mccoy, from my home and

a notice very shy at the very if ah, the situation to palestinians grew more difficult in the 1980s. young palestinians resolved to fight against these railey government and the occupation in 1987. the 1st intifada, which was soon dubbed the war, the stones began, the conflict brought with it violence and death ah. in 1993 secret talks began between the 2 hostile parties in norway, which became known as the all slow peace process. bought negotiations will also held in jerusalem in room 16 at the american colony hotel. these us to him of this were to get to us citizens. this room was booked as

a meeting room. be honest, but i cashed out of the we noticed when the cars pulled up that it was a mixed delegation. the commission delegates, yuma, israeli, palestinian and international into nocturnal. one of the journalists, a norwegian cast invite a car came over and spoke to me. come down so me on south and you know what's happening was had no clue. ah, it's historical blue negotiations in room 16 continued for days pub would began to get out. ah knocked him by the ugly humidity for after that we became the local meeting point to fall to warner. up i made my private apartment available for board meetings and,

and we became very close on campuses in our son. it was an incredibly exciting time . and it's a time of hopes and dreams from your health. toppled that have been deaf and mal in my, opened the back door of my shaw of it and made my carpet storage room available. have yourself, you can re estimate or not at all. the negotiators gathered there for 2 to 3 hours that it was happening right before my eyes. can it only been there? mary quint. alum sheehan. and you have many secret things about tyler the and we had the strong feeling that the results would be good for both people. the loved the law can assess how in or cooler there is unit days. baby. the shabby in awe on september 13th, 1993. the eyes of the world we're watching is really prime minister, yitzhak rabin and yasser arafat head of the palestinian liberation organization,

met in washington dc. ah, yes. arafat and shimon peres than israeli foreign minister, signed the interim agreement of the oslo accords. the 2 sides had come together, piece seemed within reach. anybody else does the during the oslo accords we palestinians were very happy because we thought the piece would happen and conditions would improve. grass silhouette, the ha club. those hopes have yet to come to fruition. the dream, everlasting pace is still but a vision. the political situation remains fragile, changing from one day to the next. for the american colony hotel, a hotel spanning 2 worlds. there is only one choice to remain a place of hospitality and welcome open to everyone. the environment li, live in is changing all the time and the was the outside can change and if people

don't trust each other on either side, we can't help. we can only hope people continue to trust us and people will continue to come to the hotel knowing that we are above it. ah ah ah ah. center the conflict with to sebastian. at least 27 my group perish in the english channel. will with now force europe to commit the faithful

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