Debbie Schlussel: Happy Jerusalem Day
Today is the 41st anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. It marks the day Israeli soldiers rescued the holiest of Jewish sites, the Western Wall of the Jewish Temple, from disrepair and abandonment under Jordanian occupation.
It's not as happy an occasion as it once was, with the pressure on from America for Israel to give up the part of Jerusalem that was liberated and return it back to the Muslims who soiled it. The Temple and the nearby mosque were never as free as they have been under Israel.
While we're often told that Muslims have equal claim to Jerusalem, in fact that couldn't be farther from the truth. Jerusalem has always been a Jewish city and its status as a city holy to Islam is a political creation, not founded in Islamic history (and never mentioned even once in the Koran). Read my article, "Whose Jerusalem?" for the complete picture.
Posted by Debbie on June 2, 2008 02:20 PM to Debbie Schlussel