Word: jerusalem
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...Inevitably, perhaps, the warrior king made mistakes. Joining Egypt in a disastrous 1967 war against Israel cost him control of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, where his family had tended the Islamic holy sites since the days of the prophet...
...Church of the New Jerusalem, which uses the chapel, still has the legal right to make an offer on the property, but it will forfeit this right if it does not respond within 40 days...
...political disarray in Israel. As the Israelis debate whom to elect and where to take their country following the tenuous Wye peace accords, Arafat has made it a point to remain focused on his immediate goal. "His number one priority is to improve his relationship with Washington," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "His principal strategy is aimed at undermining the United States' traditional pro-Israeli stance." Arafat and other Palestinian leaders believe that if they can warm U.S. officials to the idea of Palestinian self-determination, and ultimately a Palestinian state, Israel will have no choice...
...next war can come not from our borders but from here in Jerusalem, from the Temple Mount," says an Israeli security official. Both the Mossad and the Shinbet, the country's external and internal spy agencies, have become involved in monitoring and managing threats posed by the millennium. Says a source familiar with Israeli security issues: "It must be your first assumption that these people are not logical or reasonable. They can do almost anything at any time." For instance, he says, Dec. 31, 1999, is not necessarily D-day. "It could happen in February 2000 or in June...
...authorities have their eyes not only on Miller and his cult but on another U.S. group consisting of about a dozen people living in monasteries in the mountains around Jerusalem, mostly in the West Bank. Less organized than the Denver cult, the group expects its leader to give the members instruction involving the Temple Mount. Each of them, says an Israeli official, expects to play a major role in the end-day events. Says the official: "Everybody is feeling he is the chosen man for the mission." Members have assigned portfolios: one is in charge of justice in the world...