More recently, the Oslo peace process gave the embryonic political institutions of the embryonic Palestine a powerful foothold in the city, symbolised by the transformation ofOrientHouse, a former hotel, into a cross between a town hall and an embassy.
On arrival in Jerusalem the cortege, made up of people of all ages, many of them waving the Palestinian national flag and carrying pictures of Husseini, stopped at OrientHouse, the Jerusalem headquarters of the Palestinian National Authority, where Husseini had had his office.