Jerusalem
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Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
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We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion... We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. (Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority 1996-2004, Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, 1929-2004)
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- Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. (Psalms 122:6)
- By the streams of Babylon we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion. (Psalms 137:1)
- For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof; O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that repayeth thee as thou hast served us. (Psalms 137:3-8)
- The builder of Jerusalem is God, the outcast of Israel he will gather in... Praise God O Jerusalem, laud your God O Zion. (Psalms 147:2-12)
- For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. (Isaiah 2:3)
- Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, nine were taken by Jerusalem. (Talmud, Kiddushin 49b)
- Whoever did not see Jerusalem in its days of glory, never saw a beautiful city in their life. (Talmud, Succah 51b)
- "Eternity" — this refers to Jerusalem (Talmud, Berachot 58a)
- Even during the time of Jerusalem's stumbling, men of faith did not cease from [living] there. (Talmud, Shabbat 119b)
- There are three gates to Gehinam (purgatory) — one of them is in Jerusalem. (Talmud, Eruvin 19a)
- Jerusalem does not become impure through touching; Jerusalem will not be split by the tribes. (Talmud, Yoma 12a)
- Jerusalem was only destroyed because its inhabitants desecrated the Shabbat, they refrained from reciting the Morning and Evening Shema, the children in the Torah day schools wasted their learning time, because they were not shame faced (to sin), because they made the minors equal to the adults, because one did not rebuke another, because they embarrassed Torah Scholars (Talmud, Shabbat 119b)
- Each and every acacia tree that the non-Jews removed from Jerusalem, will be restored to it by the Holy One, Blessed be He, in the future. (Talmud, Rosh Hashana 23a)
- Whoever mourns for Jerusalem will be meritorious and will see its rejoicing and all who do not mourn for Jerusalem will not see it's rejoicing. (Talmud, Taanit 30b)
- God knows I'm gonna/ Walk in Jerusalem/ Talk in Jerusalem/ Sing in Jerusalem/ Be in Jerusalem/ High above in Jerusalem when I die. (Mahalia Jackson, Walk in Jerusalem)
- Jerusalem, which was first conquered by Omar[1] and then liberated by Saladin[2], was lost by the Muslims, who strayed from the path of Allah....Jerusalem will be restored only through Jihad.
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- ↑ Conquered in 637 CE until it was lost in the Siege of Jerusalem (1099)
- ↑ See Siege of Jerusalem (1187)
