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January 14, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m12s32s35&SecId=35&AId=57392&ATypeId=1

Islamists See Capture of Jerusalem as Precursor to the Fall of the West

[Jewish Chronicle-UK] Melanie Phillips - As Dore Gold authoritatively documents in The Fight for Jerusalem, the Jews have a unique and overwhelming claim to Jerusalem which is central to the unique nature of the Jewish state. Israel should remind the world of the world's own conclusion back in 1920 that the Jews had a unique claim to the entire land of Israel, including Jerusalem. Jordan illegally occupied eastern Jerusalem until 1967, it desecrated Jewish holy sites, ripping up Jewish gravestones on the Mount of Olives to use them for latrines. The Islamic claim to Jerusalem is not so much religious as political. As Gold states in his book, since the capture of Jerusalem is seen as the precursor to the fall of the entire West, the division of the city would recruit untold additional numbers to the global jihad.

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