Experiencing today, youve seen it experienced in jerusalem for thousands of years. For the jews, jerusalem is Wear Solomon built the holy temple. For christians, this is the place where jesus was crucified. For muslims, jerusalem is where the prophet muhammed made the night journey. People who are said to have conquered the world have swept through this city. No other individual changed the landscape in the way Herod The Great did. Saladin was determined to take on the christians and throw them out of jerusalem. At a time of ottoman islamic rule, the british badly wanted to control the holy land. The main case of the arabs is against the british Government Policy in palestine. We are the only people in the world homeless and stateless. For israelis, the creation of the state of israel is seen as a miracle. And of course for the palestinians, its a great disaster. The history of jerusalem, a very complicated story. And if you dont know it in its complexity, its very hard to understand w
The palestinian israeli conflict that we are experiencing today youve seen it experienced in jerusalem for thousands of years. For the jews, jerusalem is where solomon built the holy temple. For christians, this is a place where jesus was crucified. For muslims, it is where the Prophet Muhammad made the night journey. People are said to have conquered the world that have swept through this city. No other individual changed the landscape in the way that Herod The Great did. Determined to take on the christians and further madam jerusalem. At a time of otto and islam rule, the british badly wanted to control the holy land. For israelis, the creation of The State Of Israel is seen as a miracle and, of course, for the palestinians, its a great disaster. The history of jerusalem. A very complicated story. And if you dont know it, in its complexity, its very hard to understand whats going on there today. The past is never dead and if there is a city in the world to which that applies, its je
it s free, but you have to pay shipping. emily: no doubt it s a knock-out book. thanks to everyone for watching. here is america reports. shame on you! shame on you! from the river to the sea. palestine will be free. sandra: war rages on in the middle east, and waiting two major briefings as we begin a brand-new hour here from the biden administration on how it is responding to the war between israel and hamas. john, great to see you and your continued coverage on the ground there in israel. john: good to see you there as well, sandra. i m john roberts in jerusalem. this is america reports. the state department set to give an update on their he have reports to rescue the hundreds of americans trapped in gaza as well as the unknown amount being held hostage by hamas terrorists. that briefing will be followed by the pentagon which continues to deploy more military assets to the region to aid israel and deter the iran-backed terror group hezbollah from opening a se
Shocked and overwhelmed. and nasser started believing that he is losing the war when he realized he lost sinai. and so, he orders the jordanians to begin shelling jerusalem. and this is nasser s first big move of the war. king hussein found himself in a situation where he didn t want to go to war. but now, he had an egyptian general commanding his forces and then army started shelling west jerusalem, east jerusalem. the shelling is meant to target jews in west jerusalem but it s the palestinian arabs
soldiers who are not religious, who went directly to the western wall to pray. there was a lot of feeling, a lot of emotion. we grew up on stories about king david and jerusalem and the temple and the wailing wall. but these were only stories. and suddenly, you are there. it was like an electrical shock passing through the nation when they said that the wailing wall is ours again after 1,800 years. with victory all but certain, israel spends the next three days ensuring control of the region. they consolidate their hold on the west bank and soon occupy the entire sinai peninsula in the south. finally on the northern front, israel battles syria for control of the golan heights. and within 48 hours, the