Posted on 05/21/2009 7:14:14 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
Tonight starts Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day. It celebrates the day in 1967 that the IDF returned the Old Jerusalem to Jewish hands.
Jews were denied access to the Holy sites in the Old City Jerusalem since 1948, when Jordan took it over during the War of Independence. In the intervening 19 years the Jordanians waged systematic destruction, desecration and looting of Jewish sites. Since that day in 1967, the Muslims have been trying to reclaim Jerusalem's Holy Sites, not because of any 'religious ties" but to de-legitimize the Jewish claims to the city.
The sad part of today's struggle is there might not have been as fiece an Muslim claim to the city if Moshe Dayan didn't give away the Temple Mount almost 42 years ago The Jewish people have lost possession of the the Temple Mount only three times since King David purchased the site three centuries ago. Only once, was the site given away voluntarily. Dayan will go down in history as the man who gave away the Temple Mount and gave the Muslims the opportunity to make Jerusalem an Issue:
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
“...since King David purchased the site three centuries ago”.
Three centuries ‘eh??
So sorry.
Dayan was a great combat leader but a sorry politician. Like so many.
He’s still a hero of mine.
Maybe we can leave politics to men like Bibi.
Shalom!
The anniversary is obviously by the Jewish religious calendar--by the Gregorian calendar the 1967 war was fought in early June.
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