Jerusalem United -Malcolm Hedding
Benjamin Disraeli [pictured], the prime minister of the United Kingdom at the turn of the 20th century, told detractors who heckled him as a Jew when he rose to speak in parliament: "My people were kings in Jerusalem while you were still scratching around in the fields for mushrooms."
The point is, Jerusalem was the capital of Israel long before Berlin or New York even existed. The city has been the capital of only one people, and that is the Jewish people.
When the Ottoman Turks conquered the region and reigned over it for 400 years, they never treated the city as anything more than a backwater provincial town. How strange it is then that the world believes that the ancient biblical city should not be Jewish.
The Jews have more claim to Jerusalem than the French have to Paris or the Germans to Berlin or the British to London.
The writer is executive director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.
(Jerusalem Post)
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Benjamin Disraeli [pictured], the prime minister of the United Kingdom at the turn of the 20th century, told detractors who heckled him as a Jew when he rose to speak in parliament: "My people were kings in Jerusalem while you were still scratching around in the fields for mushrooms."
The point is, Jerusalem was the capital of Israel long before Berlin or New York even existed. The city has been the capital of only one people, and that is the Jewish people.
When the Ottoman Turks conquered the region and reigned over it for 400 years, they never treated the city as anything more than a backwater provincial town. How strange it is then that the world believes that the ancient biblical city should not be Jewish.
The Jews have more claim to Jerusalem than the French have to Paris or the Germans to Berlin or the British to London.
The writer is executive director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.
(Jerusalem Post)
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