इस अवलोकन है ि क, " "Jerusalem is holy to three religions," tends to mislead, since Jerusalem is holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians in fundamentally different ways. Jerusalem contains sites holy to Muslims and Christians, and is one of many locations of religious significance to them. To Jews, however, it is the city itself which is uniquely holy; only Jews have a religious prescription to live there, to make pilgrimages there and to pray in its direction.
Israel has advanced a coherent case, based upon the precepts of international law, for sovereignty over Jerusalem. The Palestinians, for their part, have failed to offer any legal grounds in support of their claim to the city. Their claim seems to be based solely on their desire to possess it.
History : History of Jerusalem shows us that traces of human footstep could be found from the Late Chalcolithic Period and Early Bronze Age. From the various documents we come to know that it was once known as Salem, under the rule of king Melchizedek, other documents tell us that the city of Jerusalem was founded by Abraham's forefathers Shem and Eber.
Later, from the Books of Samuel we come to know, that Jerusalem was at one time controlled by a group of scholars known as Jebusites and they resisted the Israeli's attempts to capture Jerusalem. Later on King David
managed to capture the city by sending his army through the water shaft and attacked the citizens from inside the city. King Solomon built the Temple of Solomon which finally became a major cultural attraction of the city. When Hezekiah became the king of Judah, he made Jerusalem the capital of his kingdom. It served as the capital of Judah for 400 years and even survived the siege by Sennacherib, the Assyrian king. But soon the darkness grasped Jerusalem when Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar captured it in 597 BCE and Jehoiachin, the young king became a captive. After several decades, Jerusalem became the capital of Judah again when Cyrus II of Persia allowed the Jews to enter the city. Soon after Jerusalem came under the rule of the Greeks when they conquered Persia after the death of Herod it came under the Roman rule in 6 CE. New Testament gives it the dignity of being the location of both the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus. Titus conquered it in 70 CE and only the Wailing Wall of the Second Temple remained.
In the 11th cent. the Fatimids began to hinder Christian pilgrims; their destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher helped bring on the Crusades. Jerusalem was conquered by the Crusaders in 1099 and for most of the 12th cent. was the capital of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. In 1187, Muslims under Saladin recaptured the city. Thereafter, under Mamluk and then Ottoman rule, Jerusalem was rebuilt and restored (especially by Sulayman I); but by the late 16th cent. it was declining as a commercial and religious center.
In the early 19th cent., Jerusalem began to revive. The flow of Christian pilgrims increased, and churches, hospices, and other institutions were built. Jewish immigration accelerated (especially from the time of the Egyptian occupation of Jerusalem by Muhammad Ali in 1832–41), and by 1900, Jews made up the largest community in the city and expanded settlement outside the Old City walls.
Israel has advanced a coherent case, based upon the precepts of international law, for sovereignty over Jerusalem. The Palestinians, for their part, have failed to offer any legal grounds in support of their claim to the city. Their claim seems to be based solely on their desire to possess it.
History : History of Jerusalem shows us that traces of human footstep could be found from the Late Chalcolithic Period and Early Bronze Age. From the various documents we come to know that it was once known as Salem, under the rule of king Melchizedek, other documents tell us that the city of Jerusalem was founded by Abraham's forefathers Shem and Eber.
Later, from the Books of Samuel we come to know, that Jerusalem was at one time controlled by a group of scholars known as Jebusites and they resisted the Israeli's attempts to capture Jerusalem. Later on King David
managed to capture the city by sending his army through the water shaft and attacked the citizens from inside the city. King Solomon built the Temple of Solomon which finally became a major cultural attraction of the city. When Hezekiah became the king of Judah, he made Jerusalem the capital of his kingdom. It served as the capital of Judah for 400 years and even survived the siege by Sennacherib, the Assyrian king. But soon the darkness grasped Jerusalem when Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar captured it in 597 BCE and Jehoiachin, the young king became a captive. After several decades, Jerusalem became the capital of Judah again when Cyrus II of Persia allowed the Jews to enter the city. Soon after Jerusalem came under the rule of the Greeks when they conquered Persia after the death of Herod it came under the Roman rule in 6 CE. New Testament gives it the dignity of being the location of both the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus. Titus conquered it in 70 CE and only the Wailing Wall of the Second Temple remained.In the 11th cent. the Fatimids began to hinder Christian pilgrims; their destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher helped bring on the Crusades. Jerusalem was conquered by the Crusaders in 1099 and for most of the 12th cent. was the capital of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. In 1187, Muslims under Saladin recaptured the city. Thereafter, under Mamluk and then Ottoman rule, Jerusalem was rebuilt and restored (especially by Sulayman I); but by the late 16th cent. it was declining as a commercial and religious center.
In the early 19th cent., Jerusalem began to revive. The flow of Christian pilgrims increased, and churches, hospices, and other institutions were built. Jewish immigration accelerated (especially from the time of the Egyptian occupation of Jerusalem by Muhammad Ali in 1832–41), and by 1900, Jews made up the largest community in the city and expanded settlement outside the Old City walls.
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