(Azure)
Someday round 10:15 on the morning of June 7, 1967…
The primary reservist paratroopers of Brigade 55 broke via the Lion’s Gate main into the Outdated Metropolis of Jerusalem and reached the slim enclave of the Western Wall. Having simply fought a fierce two-day battle within the streets of east Jerusalem, they grieved for misplaced associates, and grieved as effectively for their very own misplaced innocence in what for a lot of was their first expertise of fight. They leaned towards the Wall, some in exhaustion, some in prayer. A number of wept, instinctively connecting to the Wall’s custom of mourning the destruction of the Temple and the lack of Jewish sovereignty—exactly in the intervening time when Jewish sovereignty over Jerusalem had been restored.A number of hours later, Yitzhak Yifat, a twenty-four-year-old reservist about to start medical college, reached the Wall. As a part of the brigade’s 66th Battalion, he and his associates had fought within the Six Day Battle’s hardest battle: Intimate fight towards elite Jordanian Legionnaires within the trenches of Ammunition Hill, on the street to Mount Scopus.
“The {Photograph}: A Search For June 1967”
Yossi Klein Halevi
Azure
Summer 2007
On Wednesday, The United Nations Common Meeting voted overwhelmingly to hand over half of Jerusalem, the Wailing Wall, The Temple Mount, Outdated Jerusalem, and the tomb of Jesus Christ to the Palestinians.
The vote was 124-14.
The United Nations voted to show over the holiest websites of Christendom to the Palestinians.
The UN voted to show over the Jewish Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Chuch of the Holy Sepulchre, a number of synagogues, quite a few Christian holy websites, the Wailing Wall, Solomon’s Throne, the By way of Dolorosa, and rather more to the Palestinian Muslims.
The UN ordered the Jews out of the Outdated Metropolis.
B’nai B’rith organization reported:
Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis, along with Judea and Samaria, should be Judenrein inside a 12 months, in keeping with a Palestinian-drafted decision, which the U.N. Common Meeting handed on Wednesday.
The decision, which handed by a 124-14 margin with 43 abstentions, is supposed to provide power to a July advisory opinion by the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, which declared Israeli presence to be unlawful in any space over the 1949 armistice line.
Greater than 40 nations sponsored the decision, which was the primary that Palestinians filed after being granted unprecedented privileges, for a non-U.N. member, earlier this 12 months.
The decision calls on the Israel Protection Forces to withdraw utterly from Judea and Samaria, japanese Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip inside 12 months, which implies evacuating all Jewish communities past the armistice line, together with Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis.
It additionally bans arms gross sales to the IDF of any gear that might be anticipated moderately for use within the territory over the 1949 traces and requires a boycott of all merchandise produced by Jews in these areas.
The decision textual content lacks any point out of Israeli safety issues, historic ties to the lands or Hamas’s terror assaults in Israel on Oct. 7.