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  No One People Owns Jerusalem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Even those Israelis and Palestinians who have no religious beliefs contend that Jerusalem is "holy" to them, so sacred to their cultural and personal identity that it is beyond the normal give-and-take of political negotiation.
Jerusalem has been sacred to Muslims ever since the Prophet Muhammad began to preach in 610 A.D.; Muslims have lived and worshiped in Jerusalem as long as Anglo-Saxons have been in Britain; Jerusalem is the third-holiest city of Islam.
Once an issue like Jerusalem is elevated beyond the reach of compromise, the most extreme and immoral actions become not only possible but "holy" to a disaffected minority.
www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/jerarms.htm   (1101 words)

  
 Jerusalem
Jerusalem is more than just a physical grouping of stone buildings and ancient walls spreading out over the Judean hills: it is the Holy City, symbol of universal peace and redemption for over 3,000 years.
Jerusalem is really a city made up of individual communities, each built on a hill or cluster of hills and separated from neighboring areas by valleys or rocky slopes.
Jerusalem's rich history and religious significance have attracted many archaeologists seeking relics of the past and a clearer picture of the life and times of the early inhabitants.
www.jafi.org.il /education/100/places/jer.html   (5187 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jerusalem (After 1291)
Jerusalem and the holy places especially, as being the most interesting parts of the empire to Christians and the scene of continual Christian pilgrimages, were the places where the Turkish government was most anxious to show that its reforms were really meant.
Jerusalem, like the other free branches of their communion, has always indignantly withstood the many attempts of Constantinople to assert a kind of papal authority, and has always upheld the axiom that that ecumenical bishop has no ecclesiastical jurisdiction outside his patriarchate.
The third Franciscan convent in Jerusalem is by the Chapel of the Scourging in the Tariq Bab Sitti Miriam, opposite the Antonia castle.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/08364a.htm   (7696 words)

  
 Jerusalem, the Eternal Bone of Contention
While the Sharon government's move in Jerusalem drew a flood of censure from various world capitals, most of it was tagged onto and tempered by sharp words of condemnation of the pizzeria bombing.
Jerusalem, Temple Mount and the Al Aqsa Mosque were the combined keystone of the ideological arch Arafat built over his political and military uprising against Israel.
It was this failure that led to the bombardment of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo, a Palestinian offensive launched from outside the city, from Beit Jallah, El Khader and Bethlehem, failing the ability to raise an internal assault.
christianactionforisrael.org /contention.html   (1500 words)

  
 FORWARD : Editorials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
We are put in mind of this memo partly because of the events of this week, in which a delegation from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, including its chairman, Ronald Lauder, and its executive vice chairman, Malcolm Hoenlein, descended upon Costa Rica and El Salvador.
They would be inspired in their retreat, no doubt, by the "justification" issued by President Clinton of his decision to waive the sanctions that apply to the State Department's budget as a result of Mr.
We don't think the editor meant to suggest that the loss of Jerusalem was inevitable, just that there has been a danger that this question will be asked some day.
www.forward.com /issues/2000/00.01.07/ed.html   (851 words)

  
 Jerusalem's Temples: Lost and Found? or Simply Forgotten?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This is an unexpected, exceptional analysis of the historical and archaeological data of the Temples of Jerusalem.
In today's Jerusalem Post (internet edition), I read a lengthy article about a group of archaeologists (called minimalists) in Israel that are "attempting" to show that the archaeological record indicates that the facts set forth in the Bible for the period before about 800 C.E. are not true.
Note that in II Kings 16:5-7 Israel and Syria besieged Jerusalem (the capital of the kingdom of Judah).
www.bibarch.com /Perspectives/3.2.htm   (6057 words)

  
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Jordan’s “historic role” in Jerusalem was identified in the 1994 Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty. Israel used its physical presence as occupiers in the eastern part of the city to substantiate its historic claim to Jerusalem.
Jerusalem’s Latin patriarch attempted to remain neutral as to whether the legitimate site of the baptism is in Jordan's Wadi al-Kharrar or on the West Bank of the Jordan River, at Qasr al-Yahoud, under Israeli occupation, but also claimed by the Palestinian Authority as a Palestinian national site.
One might link Jerusalem’s holy places, sites no longer under Jordan’s political control in 2000, to the 1964 visit, as they were the focus of the Holy Land papal pilgrimage at that time.
www.cssaame.ilstu.edu /issues/23/24katz.doc   (4651 words)

  
 Jerusalem Trampled Underfoot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Those who understood the significance of Jerusalem, the faithful Christians (or at least those without Jewish ancestry) were allowed to continue living in Jerusalem, or Aelia Capatolina as it was renamed.
Jerusalem continued to be trodden under foot until the early nineteenth century.
Jerusalem's first printing press was founded in 1842 (a year after Hyde's prayer) and books and newspapers began to appear.
www.whyprophets.com /prophets/gentile4.htm   (3129 words)

  
 News
East Jerusalem Palestinians who moved elsewhere in the Occupied Territories and later returned to the city face the restriction stipulating that they are entitled to renewal of allotments only two years after their return.
In its answer to the petition of Najwa Atrash, a resident of Jerusalem who has lived in Jordan with her husband since 1978 and returned to live in Jerusalem in 1995, the State argued: The policy of the Interior Ministry is not at all new...
Enable spouses of Jerusalem residents to remain in the city with their spouse until approval of the application for family unification, and ensure that their children receive all the benefits to which they are entitled.
www.christusrex.org /www2/news-old/4-97/btselem.html   (14886 words)

  
 art14b   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This paper argues that “lost IDs” should be treated in the negotiations as an issue independent of the ongoing talks on the return of the 1967 displaced persons.
The number of Palestinians who lost their resident status in the 1967 occupied territories in this fashion is estimated to be at 80,000, the large majority of whom are currently living in Jordan.
In order to prevent the massive revocation of ID cards from Palestinian Jerusalemites living in the West Bank or abroad in the interim period, Palestinian negotiators must raise the demand for the freeze of their residency status until the issue is resolved in the final status negotiations.
www.badil.org /Publications/Article74/1995/art14b.htm   (1369 words)

  
 News and Notes from Israel
JERUSALEM (September 24) - Yesterday Jerusalem lost a great supporter, and I lost a dear friend.
Isaac Stern constantly worked to promote the cultural life of Jerusalem and was a great supporter of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.
He came to Jerusalem and stood with me on Rehov Ben-Yehuda in the center of town and played his violin for passersby, collecting money for my campaign.
israelnews.freeservers.com   (722 words)

  
 belong
Jerusalem lost its name and its mission to be the Center of the One God after the destruction of the Jewish Temple.
Jerusalem regained somehow its origin mission to be the city that worships the One God.
Jerusalem regained its old name "Urushalim", in fact the name "Urushalim" is a word of Cananite-Amorite derivation; the prefix URU, meaning "founded by or house of" and the suffix "salem" or "shalem" being the name of a Cananite-Amorite deity.
www.al-bushra.org /Truth/belong.htm   (2727 words)

  
 art16d   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is known that the Interior Ministry has kept computerized files on Jerusalem residents for at least the past 15 years - and that one of the categories in these files concerns residents who have been “subtracted”.
This refers to Jerusalem residents who have been removed from the Jerusalem population registry not through death or by moving to another locality within the State of Israel, but by administrative decision.
Thus, it should be quite easy for the Ministry to count the number of Palestinian Jerusalemites who have lost their residency rights.
www.badil.org /Publications/Article74/1996/art16d.htm   (365 words)

  
 Major "Keys" in Discovering the Lost Temples of Jerusalem
The western part of that rectangular shaped area that the Jewish people have selected to adore (and at which they presently congregate to worship, and they have done so for almost 430 years) is the remains of a structure that their forefathers held in utmost disdain and contempt in the first century.
This was caused by their acceptance of particular doctrines (that to the Jews were novel mystical teachings of a religious nature and counter to biblical teachings) that diminished the role of the Temple in their social and religious environments.
Benjamin of Tudela arrived on the scene in Jerusalem when the Christians in the Crusade period were in control of Jerusalem and they had been masters of the city for the previous 70 years.
www.askelm.com /temple/t011112.htm   (16211 words)

  
 Get Lost in Jerusalem Software   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Its rich history echoes with the clamor of ancient battles, the worship of temple priests, the cries of merchants, and the crunch of Roman boots.
City of miracles, place where Christ died and rose again, center of three world religions — Jerusalem is like nowhere else in the world.
Next to actually boarding a plane for the Holy City, this software package is the most exciting way to take the trip you’ve dreamed of — a virtual tour through Jerusalem that leaves no stone unturned.
www.prophecyinthenews.com /detail.asp?Product_ID=CD507   (284 words)

  
 FT.com / Comment & analysis - Observer: Jerusalem lost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Instead conference closed to the strains of "Jerusalem" - a more "progressive" anthem about replacing industrial horrors with paradise on earth.
Alas, among the many delegates lost for words was one T. Blair.
After all the soundtrack to that triumph was "Jerusalem".
news.ft.com /cms/s/d6c8b932-314e-11da-ac1b-00000e2511c8.html   (125 words)

  
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Christ turned to her and said He was not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Suppose her faith had failed here, and she had accepted that movement away from her as final; then would the world have been denied one of the most heart-thrilling instances of victorious faith and prayer that is on record.
And lost in Jerusalem and in the Temple!
www.raptureready.com /resource/carradine/ad-5.html   (5974 words)

  
 Lost in Jerusalem
The lean young man feels his way with a folding white stick between the tables of a yuppie Jerusalem cafe.
Like a child who still counts his age in fractions of a year, he says he's 19 and a half.
Another young rebel Raquel's been helping for three years was sent to a Jerusalem yeshiva by his Orthodox American parents in the hope that it would bring him back to the faith and to society.
www.jewishjournal.com /old/silver.1.28.0.htm   (718 words)

  
 Jesus Is Lost in Jerusalem
Every faithful Jewish person was required in those days to go to the Temple in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of the Passover in the spring (the temple is no longer standing).
Joseph made a point of going to Jerusalem for the Passover every year.
The road from Nazareth to Jerusalem is about 65 miles long, and they probably walked the whole way.
www.sundayschoollessons.com /chrs1les.html   (211 words)

  
 Get Lost in Jerusalem: Explore the Holy Ciry Through Virtual Reality, Zondervan Interactive - BMSoftware
Its rich history echoes with the clamor of ancient battles, the worship of temple priests, the cries of merchants, the crunch of Roman boots, and the voice of Jesus himself.
Next to actually boarding a plane for the Holy City, the software package you’re holding is the most exciting way to take the trip you’ve dreamed of--a virtual tour through Jerusalem that leaves no stone unturned.
Experience the sights and sounds of Jerusalem with a virtual tour of over 300 sites including numerous buildings and historical locations.
www.bmsoftware.com /getlostjerusalem.htm   (735 words)

  
 Crusader - CHRIS DE BURGH
And now you say Jerusalem has fallen and is lost,
They tell me that Jerusalem has fallen to the hand
Ooh, high on a hill, in the town of Jerusalem,
www.geocities.com /akingokcen/text/p65.htm   (466 words)

  
 Get Lost in Jerusalem: Explore the Holy City Through Virtual Reality by Hildebrandt, Ted A. - The Gospel Shop
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