In 1967, The Mosque Loudspeakers Cried....

At 11:15 a.m. on June 5, 1967, Jordanian artillery launched a 6,000-shell barrage against Jewish Jerusalem, hitting the Knesset and the prime minister’s house as well as the Hadassah Hospital and the Church of Dormition on Mount Zion. Following Defense Minister Moshe Dayan’s orders, the Israelis responded only with small arms. At 11:30, Dayan ordered a strike against the Jordanian air force. Watching from the roof of his palace with his eldest son, the future King Abdullah II, Hussein saw his planes destroyed.

In Jerusalem, Israel offered a ceasefire but the Jordanians were not interested. The muezzin loudspeakers on the Dome of the Rock cried, “Take up your weapons and take back your country stolen by the Jews.”

Excerpted from Simon Sebag Montefiore's new book, the chapter: ‘The Temple Mount is in our hands’

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First A Tunnel, Then A Bridge

You'll recall, the tunnel story was misreported.

And now the bridge story:

Mughrabi Bridge renovation gets municipal nod

Left-wing groups criticize authorities’ failure to coordinate the potentially explosive project with the Wakf.

A plan for the renovation of the Mughrabi Gate bridge, which leads from the Western Wall plaza to the Al-Aksa Mosque and the Temple Mount, received final approval from the Jerusalem Municipality last week, enabling construction to begin at any time...The project will be carried out in cooperation with the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The Antiquities Authority declined to comment on the matter.

Give the story a few more minutes to attract Arab foaming-at-the-mouth.

And here we are:

...Located in East Jerusalem's old walled city, the ramp is next to a compound Muslims know as Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, and the al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site.

Jews also revere the site where two biblical temples stood and which is a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In September 2000 a visit there by Ariel Sharon, then Israeli opposition leader, triggered protests that led to years of Palestinian uprising in which thousands on both sides died.

Palestinians have argued that Israeli renovations could damage Islamic relics buried underground...

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Join Peace Now And Save Jerusalem, As It Were

I checked Peace Now's website for any posters or flyers like the one below (yes, also in Hebrew) so it really must be new.

The first side shows a schematic map of Jerusalem, "West" and "East" and claims that the 'settlers' are making Jerusalem into a bi-national city.  Unfortunately, they can't distinguish between citizenship and nationality.
Jewish families are residing amongst Arab ones!
And the call is: Jerusalemties assume responsibility and save the city.

At least the Mt. of Olives 2000-year old Jewish cemetery isn't makred as a "settlement".

The reverse side call for people to join Peace Now as there still is a cahnce for peace, if PN's struggle is successful:

Oh, and that map has the Old City sort of unique in grey and the Temple Mount or, in the Hebrew, Har Habayit, is missing.  It is only El-Aqsa.

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Sarah Palin's Marching Orders

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...You can stand with allies like Israel, not criticize them. You can let the President know what you believe – Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, not a settlement.

Source


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Heard of the "Jordanian Strip"?

From Mosaic News - 10/20/10:
World News From The Middle East [VIDEO]

Jordan strips Jerusalem residents of citizenship rights

Al Jazeera TV, Qatar

Presenter, Female #1

The Jordanian government has warned against the dangerous rise in the number of Jerusalemites residing in Jordan who don’t renew their residency permits issued by the Israeli occupation. This prompted the government to change the Jerusalemites permanent residency yellow cards to temporary green cards, stripping them of their basic rights. The Jordanian opposition said the citizenship order is unconstitutional. Hasan al-Shubaki met a Jerusalemite family and reported on their ordeal.

Reporter, Male #1

All members of his family have Jordanian citizenship except for him. This is how Nasir Abu Kuwaik, who was born in occupied Jerusalem, spent the first 17 years of his life. His name was added to his mother’s Jerusalem residency card. Nearly 13 years ago, Nasir’s mother was stripped of her Israeli residency card. In 2000, the Israeli occupation authorities forced Nasir to sign a document, stripping him of his citizenship right. Six years later, Nasir married a Palestinian woman from the Gaza Strip and applied for a Jordanian-issued family record book. However, he was surprised to find out that his Jordanian citizenship had been revoked, as shown in this hand-written phrase. Nasir has diligently requested the occupation authorities grant him citizenship. Nasir also made several failed attempts to help uphold his Jordanian citizenship. His yellow card was changed to a green card, forfeiting all of his rights.

...politicians and critics said implementing the articles of disengagement between the West and East Bank is leading to a rise in the number of yellow card holders, currently numbering a million, who are being described as victims of random orders and measures by the occupation authorities. As the government continues to change the residency status of Palestinians in Jordan, despite criticism by legal experts and political candidates, observers believe that Israel will continue to expel Palestinians from their land. Meanwhile, the suffering of Jerusalemites as well as the suffering of Palestinians on both banks of the river will continue...

That's some strip.

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Another Take on the 90-Day Feeze

Here:

With the new deal, the US might have given up all leverage over Jerusalem for the next two years, agreed to construction in Jerusalem (and ultimately, the rest of the West Bank), and seems to get nothing in return

and

By promising an automatic veto against any international move or any unilateral attempt by the Palestinians do declare independence, the Administration gave up any leverage over Jerusalem in 2011. And since 2012 is elections year, one can say that Netanyahu got a Carte Blanch from Obama and Clinton for the rest of his term.

Furthermore, the administration promised not to demand any more moratoriums, and to exclude Jerusalem from the current one. In other words, the White House agreed not to oppose construction in the settlements starting from January 2011, and to accept all construction in East Jerusalem right now. This is, by itself, a terrible move.

What did the Americans get in return? And what did the Palestinians get? apparently, nothing. The negotiations might resume, but it’s hard to believe that any breakthrough will be reached in the next couple of months.

I don't mind that.

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Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Police arrest man, woman suspected of operating brothel

Jerusalem Police detectives detained a man and a woman suspected of owning and operating a brothel in central Jerusalem.

A 60-year old man in dire condition, who had apparently suffered a heart attack, was found in the apartment.

That definitely is bad for business.


P.S. Check back later, I will try to "update" the story.

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An Update from 1918-1920:

There was nothing new about the phenomenon of prostitution in the Holy City, 6 yet its scope after the British army's entry into the city in December 1917 was exceptional, evoking considerable attention and anxiety. 7 Over 26,000 British
soldiers were stationed in Jerusalem after the city's conquest. 8 The military government's recognition that prostitutes were a vital necessity for the soldiers 9 took the form of regulations on the subject issued by Major General Money, "chief administrator of conquered enemy territory." 10 The content of these regulations, published on June 27, 1918, but made known earlier, were based on the Ottoman penal code. 11 Demarcating the neighborhoods of Nahalat Shiv'ah and the Milner Houses as areas in which brothels were legally permitted to operate in Jerusalem, their primary objective was to guarantee the soldiers' health and good conduct. 12

Notes

6. Margalit Shilo, Nesikhah o shevuyah? Hahavayah hanashit shel hayishuv haya shan birushalayim 1840-1914 (Princess or captive? Jewish women in Jerusalem 1840-1914; Haifa University Press, 2001). In a letter in English to the military governor of the city dated July 26, 1918 (Jerusalem City Archives, Box 1412, no. 15), the rabbis of the Sephardi and Ashkenazi religious high courts mention their appeal two years earlier to the Turkish authorities on the subject of prostitution. A letter from Sarah Thon and others to Ya'akov Thon about prostitution in Jerusalem during World War I, received on August 22, 1917, is in the Central Zionist Archives (CZA), S2/745. In Ad Yerushalayyim: Roman mimei milhemet ha'olam harishonah (To Jerusalem: A novel of the First World War; Jerusalem, 1987, book 3: Shemot), Aharon Reuveni recounts the tale of a young girl who turned to prostitution both to make her living and as an act of defiance; see particularly pp. 289-290, 346, and 386. Yigal Schwartz, in his Afterword to Reuveni's text, refers to the book as a "period novel" (ibid., p. 414). I am grateful to Hava Diner for referring me to this source. [End Page 79]

7. . David Biale, Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America (Berkeley, Ca., 1992), p. 163, cites statistics published in 1906 by the Bureau of Jewish Statistics in Berlin according to which in 1897 there were 44 Jewish prostitutes to every 100,000 people in Russia. The number of Jewish streetwalkers exceeded that of any other ethnic group.

8. Brian Gardner, Allenby (London 1965), pp. 160-161; Tom Segev, Yemei hakalaniyot: Eretz yisrael bitkufat hamandat (Palestine under the British Mandate; Jerusalem, 1999), p. 51.

9. On the importance attributed to prostitution in promoting soldiers' health and morale and discouraging them from raping local women see Laura Hein, "Savage Irony: The Imaginative Power of the 'Military Comfort Women' in the 1990s," Gender and History, 11/2 (1999); Chunghee Sarah Soe, "Uncovering the Truth About the 'Comfort Women,'" Women's Studies International Forum, 21/4 (1998). See also E.M. Sigsworth and T.J. Wyke, "A Study of Victorian Prostitution and Venereal Disease," in: Martha Vicinus, Suffer and Be Still: Women in the Victorian Age (Bloomington, Ind., 1973), p. 90; and see the manuscript version of the memoirs of Helen Bentwich, CZA, A255/470,p. 22.

10. These regulations were published a number of times. See the proclamation issued by General Money on November 14, 1918, in Proclamations, Ordinances and Notices issued by O.E.T.A. (South), August 1919 (Cairo 1920), pp. 39-40; and Hadashot meha'aretz (News from Israel), No. 5, August 1, 1918. Also quoted by B.Z. Kedar, Mabat ve'od mabat al Eretz Yisrael: Tatzlumei avir mimei milhemet ha'olam harishonah mul tatzlumim benei zemaneinu (Looking twice at the Land of Israel: Aerial photographs of 1917-18 and 1987-91; Jerusalem, 1992), p. 145.

11. Letter of May 1, 1925, by Herbert Samuel to Sir Maugras, Herbert Samuel Archive, Israel State Archives, P/12/649.

12. Sir Wingate's telegram of March 15, 1918, to the Foreign Ministry reports on the soldiers' proper conduct in Jerusalem. Israel State Archives, FO 371, microfilm 628.