Nationhood and Jerusalem Israel became a nation in 13 12 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 B.C.E. the Jews have […]

JERUSALEM (Deccember 24) – Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert charged on Friday that Israel had agreed to give the Palestinians full sovereignty over the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives in addition to control over the Temple Mount as part of a final peace agreement. “We have also agreed to give the Palestinians full sovereignty […]