I thought I had written all that I would write about Jerusalem here (see O Jerusalem! ) but the issue just won't go away of course. We should not have to explain the obvious, but it appears there is no choice. Jerusalem has been central to Judaism for 3,000 years. Each day observant Jews pray for the rebuilding of Jerusalem, and almost everyone vows, each year at the Passover Seder, "Next Year in Jerusalem. Jerusalem has been central to Zionism since its inception. "Zion" is the name of a hill in Jerusalem. Hatikva, the Zionist anthem and later the Israeli national anthem, expresses the hope, "to be a free nation in our own land, the land of Zion and Jerusalem." The Hebrew University, Hadassah hospital and Jewish Agency headquarters were all established in Jerusalem as testimony to the intimate and integral connection between the new Zionist community and the national capital of the ancient Hebrew state and the renewed Jewish state. The Knesset was located in Jerusalem as soon as it was practical to do so. The location of every Zionist institution and every settlement was a political statement. Jerusalem was certainly not the most convenient place for these institutions.
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Ami Isseroff on 03.26.08 @ 09:26 PM CST [link]
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