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.
Almost two decades later, the 1967 Six-Day War would see the Jewish state claim rights to the Golan Heights, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and all of Jerusalem. He is one of more than 850,000 people residing in Jerusalem.Īfter a peaceful period under Ottoman rule, where Islam, Christianity and Judaism coexisted in relative harmony, the decline of the empire and consequent victory of the British in Palestine during World War I set the stage for the eventual takeover of the city.ĭuring the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jewish forces captured West Jerusalem as the eastern half became part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Raised in Australia, Luria says Israel is his only home, in spite of only having moved there 25 years ago. Luria is the executive director of Ateret Cohanim, a settler organisation working to create a Jewish majority in the city of Jerusalem. This talk about Palestine, Palestine … I’ve never heard of anything more absurd.” “There’s never been a Palestinian state here.
“There’s never been an Arab state here with the capital of Jerusalem,” says Daniel Luria.
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