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IW.195.VIKING BOER – ISRAEL WATCH – Israel, Trump & Future of Jerusalem (Part I)
Israel, Trump & Future of Jerusalem (Part I)
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Jerusalem: A Rock and a Hard Place: “There’s never been an Arab state here with the capital of Jerusalem,” says Daniel Luria. “There’s never been a Palestinian state here.
This talk about Palestine, Palestine … I’ve never heard of anything more absurd.”Luria is the executive director of Ateret Cohanim, a settler organization working to create a Jewish majority in Jerusalem. Raised in Australia, Luria says Israel is his only home, in spite of only having moved there 25 years ago. He is one of more than 850,000 people residing in Jerusalem.
After a peaceful period under Ottoman rule, where Islam, Christianity, and Judaism coexisted in relative harmony, the decline of the empire and the consequent victory of the British in Palestine during World War I set the stage for the eventual takeover of the city.
During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jewish forces captured West Jerusalem as the eastern half became part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Almost two decades later, the 1967 Six-Day War saw the Jewish state claim rights to the Golan Heights, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and all of Jerusalem.
Since then, Israel has established over 200 illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land with about 600,000 settlers in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.
In this two-part film, Al Jazeera’s Awad Joumaa follows a cast of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim characters that call Jerusalem home. A Muslim scholar; a Christian Palestinian researcher; a former Israeli soldier and former Zionist turned professor; a self-described Zionist settler; a peace activist; an actress and her artist son; and a father, whose son is under home detention, fighting to hold on to his house in the Old City. These are some of the key characters, sharing their stories and thoughts on the city’s past, present, and future.
This is the story of Jerusalem as told through its own people.
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