Jerusalem: City of God, City of Blood

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the one of the world’s oldest conflicts, and it is still an ongoing problem in the world. Zionists and Arabs: two groups with conflicting beliefs who both claim Israel as their own. In wake of the Holocaust the U.N decided to gift the Jews a homeland for the lives lost in the genocide. In 1947, the U.N Partition divided the land of Israel (Historic Palestine) into two separate states: Arab and Jewish. Since then, the state of Israel has been the center of conflict between the Arabs and the Zionists. As time passed the Zionists gained more land from winning the Six-Day War, and consequently the Palestinians had to live as refugees in other Arab countries. Additionally, more than 75% of the land belonged to

Religious spaces, characterized by Thomas Tweed, are “differentiated,” “interrelated,” and “kinetic.” As a sacred city with spiritual significance in three major religions, Jerusalem is depicted thoroughly in the Hebrew Bible and illustrated as one of the spaces Tweed defines. The Bible emphasizes that Jerusalem was chosen by God and honored by Israelites, which differentiates it as a special, singular space; the description of Solomon’s Temple shows that the Holy City was interrelated to economic power and involved in the judgment of civil cases. Moreover, the conquest, development and destruction of Jerusalem illustrate the city as a kinetic space, reflecting the unsettled history of the Iron Age. These characteristics all make Jerusalem a religious and political center from the ancient Near East time to present day, guiding the footsteps of believers around the world.

Many Palestinians are religious, and when the Israelis seized their homeland, they took away many of their sacred sites. Palestine is home to a multitude of sacred sites such as Jerusalem. As you can see by the changes from Document 1 to Document 2, in the span of about sixty years, Palestine has endeavored many changes. Palestine originally was composed of predominately Israeli occupied territories, but that fact is not correct today. Both, Jews and Muslims find Jerusalem sacred, which could lead to future problems. When attempting to establish a peace settlement, there will be vast conflict about it; neither group of people would be willing to give up such a holy city where so many vital biblical events have occurred. Religion is extremely powerful and important in places such as these, so it would be difficult and highly unlikely for one group to compromise. If anything, this may result in further violence. Thus, people’s religion contributes a large factor to the reason why there is a small chance for a peaceful settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Another short clipping from Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech rephrases the connection between Israel, Jerusalem, and the Jews: “They are an integral and inextricable part of modern Jerusalem.” Jerusalem is a holy land of sorts to the Jews, and Netanyahu insists that they will not and cannot be moved from Jerusalem. He implies that they are an essential part of Jerusalem, and not only to the Jews need the city, but the city needs

To prove my claim, I’ll be providing sources mainly from political analyst as well as socio-religious experts globally and regionally. These can be published research and analysis sources, such as the Brookings Institute, CIA World Factbook or the Pew Research Center, or reputable news sources such as the New York Times and The Economist. In addition, experts in the topic, such as spokespersons from groups such as Arab American Institute. In general, I will avoid “click bait” news sources such as Buzzfeed and Vice as they are mostly opinionated and don’t place as much emphasis on logos-based arguments. By focusing on fact-based articles, I will be able to better further my argument, which constitutes a fact-based complex claim on the social conflict between Jewish and Palestinian.

The crisis in Jerusalem dragged both Israel and Palestine into a vortex of violence and a religious conflict. Both Israelis and Palestinians had claim the city as a sacred religious site and their political capital. The conflict became quite violent causing the closure of holy sites, a deadly terrorist attack caused the Palestinian's to end all contact with Israel. Despite the peace efforts between the states, societies continued to rupture along ethnic and religious lines. Israel's continued unfolding with religious conflict and persisted in illegal actions causing living conditions for Palestinian civilians to become unlivable. Jews have formed the largest religious group in the city and have been in the majority. However, the Arab and Jewish communities in Palestine were in mortal dispute. Under an agreement approved by the United Nations, Jerusalem was meant to become a separated body but due to Arab forces sieging Jerusalem, and withdrawing of the British mandate, Jerusalem became a huge battleground. Jewish settlers pushed Muslim Arabs out of their homes and established the state of Israel on their land during the middle of the 20th century. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are extremely tied to the ancient city due to them recognizing Jerusalem as a holy place. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over which gets what land and how that land is

If all revolves around Jerusalem to many religions, that is the right place to be dominating. What’s more, it is the only place on Earth that mirrors Christ so it is basically

In his book, My Jerusalem, former Mayor of the titular city, Teddy Kollek, creates and provides commentary on twelve walks through contemporary Jerusalem. The man who presided over Jerusalem’s 1967 reunification, the Jewish Kollek paints his city as a potpourri of peoples, faiths and cultures—and he seems glad of it. His celebration of the constant intermingling Jewish, Muslim and Christian aspects of the city was what interested me most in the book. As much as I’d like to believe in his descriptions of a peaceful potpourri, these feel perhaps too optimistic for a city still very much divided. Kollek emphasises the manner in which all manner of people flow together through the streets of Jerusalem: ‘the black-garbed Hassidim and the T-shirted backpackers, the long-frocked Armenian and Greek priests, the Ethiopian monks and the shorts-and-sandals kibbutzniks, the sensibly shod American Baptist pilgrims and the veiled Moslem [sic] women’ (16).

Religious spaces, characterized by Thomas Tweed, are “differentiated,” “interrelated,” and “kinetic.” As a sacred city with spiritual significance in three major religions, Jerusalem is depicted thoroughly in the Hebrew Bible and illustrated as one of the spaces Tweed defines. The Bible emphasizes that Jerusalem was chosen by God and honored by Israelites, which differentiates it as a special, singular space; the description of Solomon’s Temple shows that the Holy City was interrelated to economic power and involved in the judgment of civil cases. Moreover, the conquest, development and destruction of Jerusalem illustrate the city as a kinetic space, reflecting the unsettled history of the Iron Age. These characteristics all make Jerusalem

To begin with, the Bible illustrates that Jerusalem is a special space due to God’s residence in the city. Tweed argues that “differentiated” religious space is sensually experienced locales that are “more or less ‘special’, ‘singular’ or ‘set apart’” in that it can “orient daily life” (Tweed 2011:119). In that sense, Jerusalem in the Bible is differentiated, since God’s presence in the city indeed affected Israelites’ life. With the Ark of the Covenant in the city, people’s life in Jerusalem had been changed as they felt a sense of safety being in a center connecting heaven to earth, and thus being close to the deity; they could from then on

To the Jews, Jerusalem was considered God's own city. To the Christians, it was where Jesus was crucified and resurrected, and the Muslims viewed it as their third holiest city. As all three of them disagreed on who Jerusalem truly belonged to, Pope Urban

First in the Torah (The Jews Holy Book) it says that the land was given to the by God. And in 1000A.D Saul, David, and Solomon ruled the land and now the Arabs/Muslims are trying to take it all away.second is that the Arabs because they have owned that land since the 7th century and the Jews are trying to claim it again and the arabs have had that land since 1800 even though the jews had that land in 1000 A.D but they didn't acknowledge it until so it's just a big controversy on who land is it and to conclude that the city, The Holy city of Jerusalem is anyone's at this point because there's too much war as it is and there just adding on they should

The fight over Jerusalem is not a new issue. Rather, it is one that has been a matter of contention for hundreds of years, from the Third Crusade, a fight between Western and Eastern leaders, to today’s conflicts between Israel and Palestine. Both are over control of the territory. The Holy Land and the surrounding area have always inspired strong feelings in the three major monotheistic religions and their kingdoms, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, enough that they are willing to shed blood over it throughout history and to present day for the right to control it.

Around 1800 BCE is when Judaism or Jewish religion began with Abraham in Israel. Then 2,436 years in 636 AD the Arabs came to Israel and conquered it and destroyed a Jewish temple and built the Dome of the Rock. The Jewish people were there 2,436 years before the Arabs yet thy still are persecuted for being there ridiculed for “stealing” the Arabs “Holy Land”. That isn’t the end of it either because after that the Jewish were from 636 to 1948 by other countries. During those times it was the Persians, Roman, Babylonian, and Hellentheistic peoples, all who tormented them causing them to scatter all over the world. The Jewish people had nothing since 636 AD and during biblical times people have the tendency to dismiss that fact like the Arabs today. Jerusalem was once the direction for all Muslim people to look to when they prayed because Muhammed had wanted it to be an important land mark in the religion. Yet, he changed his mind in the end for some reason. One of the reasons it is also Holy because Muhammad had lived there for a short amount of time Jerusalem would not be there only holy land if they had kept it, they would have 3 Holy sites leaving the Jewish with none. The Dome of the Rock is in Jerusalem so that would be a reason to keep it and call it the Holy Land. Yet the Arabs still have more land unlike the Jewish. They still have Mecca and Medina, it is also a belief

The Arab-Israeli Conflict, and the struggle for a religious homeland, is a complex and somewhat mystified conflict. The tensions between the Palestinian and Israeli peoples can be traced back to Biblical times, when Abraham allocated for one of his sons, Isaac, to lay claim to Judea or modern day Israel. Muslims claimed that the elder son Ishmael had been allocated the region in the Qur’an. Although many historians believe otherwise, these claims are still the more popular historical context amongst monotheistic practitioners.