Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is a representative sample of Israel's plans to "develop the Old City," then God help Jerusalem...
...Syria, which lost the vital revenues from two oil pipelines, the capital city of Damascus began rationing food last week. Lebanon's $85 million-a-year tourist industry, meantime, has all but dried up. Hardest hit is Jordan: it lost not only the tourist-rich Old City of Jerusalem but, at least for the time being, the agricultural lands on the west bank of the Jordan River. In Washington last week, King Hussein did not have to remind President Johnson that even in the best of times, his country has needed an annual U.S. budget subsidy of $30 million...
...first time in 19 years, Jerusalem was a single city. Acting with undisguised pleasure, the Israeli parliament rushed through the legislative formalities to reunify the Jordanian half with the Jerusalem of the Jews. Within hours, all the barricades began to come down. The barbed wire was stripped away from the rubble-strewn stretch that once had been no man's land...
Over the Bridge. Unfortunately, such postwar amity was chiefly confined to Jerusalem. Long streams of Arab refugees who felt anything but brotherhood for the Jews were still scrambling over the wreckage of the Allenby Bridge into what remained of Jordan. Nearly 200,000 Arabs have fled from the west bank of the Jordan since its capture by Israel four weeks ago, and the flow shows no signs of stopping...
...enemies of Judaism were destroyed. Since Maimonides' time, however, most rabbis have gloomily concluded that the restoration of the Temple would have to wait until the coming of the Messiah. In line with that reasoning, the chief rabbinate of Israel issued a warning after the capture of Jordanian Jerusalem that no Jew should step inside the Temple area...