Word: jerusalems
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...schoolboys fondly recite Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty, or give me death," so Israeli schoolboys like to declaim the Psalmist's powerful text: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning...
...Arab war in 1948 left the Israelis with only a tantalizing toe hold in Jerusalem. The Arab Legion held the Old City. Since then, the U.N. in three separate resolutions has urged that the entire city be internationalized. But as the Israelis learned during their war for independence, one fait accompli is worth a dozen U.N. resolutions. They set out to make the toe hold a foothold...
First the government moved some of its smaller departments from the capital of Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Then the Knesset (parliament) itself quit the Tel Aviv movie theater where it had been meeting, and moved to Jerusalem, even though Jerusalem is on the fringe of the country. In 1950, the Knesset proclaimed Jerusalem Israel's capital...
...wasn't quite. The Knesset hesitated to move the Foreign Ministry to Jerusalem lest foreign diplomats, abiding by the U.N. resolutions, refuse to follow. That would raise the question of Israel's legal right to take over the Holy City...
...stymie both girls. It keeps Basil too cool toward Deborra to consummate his marriage and not warm enough toward Helena to make more than a mental pass at her throughout the book. But it does help Basil get his work done. He rattles around the Mediterranean world from Jerusalem to Antioch to Rome in order to see saints and apostles like Mark, Luke, John, Peter and Paul, and etch their images on the chalice. These holy men wear their hair and their platitudes long. Together with Author Costain's lumbering, pseudo-Biblical style, they reduce the pace...