Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign professors who remained in Amman during the war but has since been evacuated, I was much impressed by the accuracy and fairness of your account. I have talked with dozens who eyewitnessed various phases in Jerusalem, Beirut and Egypt from the Arab side. Everything you said correlates, and I was happy to see King Hussein get due but not excessive credit for his heroic synthesis of conflicting loyalties. His people deserve all the help we can give them...
...Jerusalem, though, is another matter. No U.N. resolution or Arab bluster is likely to shake Israeli determination to stay in the Old City. Some religious leaders have already begun to lobby for the erection of a Third Temple (see RELIGION), although the Israelis have also offered to permit a commission of Moslems and Christians to administer the holy places of each religion. They have promised freedom of access to all shrines in a Jerusalem entirely under Israeli control...
Israel's conquest of Jordanian Jerusalem, which sent thousands of devout Jews to pray in freedom before the historic Wailing Wall for the first time in centuries, has raised an interesting theo logical conundrum. Assuming that Israel keeps the Wall, which is one of the few remaining ruins of Judaism's Second Temple, has the time now come for the erection of the Third Temple...
Since the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, in A.D. 70, Conservative and Orthodox Jews have beseeched God four times a week to "renew our days as they once were" - a plea for the restoration of the Temple. Although Zionism was largely a secular movement, one of its sources was the prayers of Jews for a return to Palestine so that they could build a new Temple...
Holocaust & Diaspora. The First Temple was built by King Solomon as a dwelling place for God on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem around 966 B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in the 6th century B.C., but a Second Temple was erected upon the same site in 515 B.C., after the return from exile. This Temple, in turn, was destroyed by the Romans when they turned Jerusalem into a flaming holocaust and sent its inhabitants into the Diaspora. Although most Jews fled the city, a few remained to bewail the fate of God's people at the Temple site...