Do these people listen to themselves? On the demolition of the Shepherd Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem:
Despite the Arab invaders' incessant attempts to erase the ancient Jewish heritage of Jerusalem, it will always stay in the minds and hearts of her people, who have prayed and wept and yearned for her every single day of their separation from her for more than two thousand years. And, G-d willing, it will stay in our hands as well.
The first bulldozers arrived around 5 a.m.; by noon the right half of the four-story structure was a pile of rubble.Nor the Romans, nor the Byzantines, nor the Arabs (skipping a few before and between), the latter being the imperial power that conquered Jerusalem by force in 637-38 CE. The husband of the niece of Hitler's accomplice Haj Amin al-Husseini got that almost right and he can perhaps be excused for not knowing his history, as his schooling was undoubtedly deficient in this area.
"It's not just a disgrace against the owners, it's a disgrace against history," said Adnan Abdul Razeh, a resident of Bab e-Zahara, a neighborhood south of Sheikh Jarrah. His wife was a niece of Haj Husseini.
"They're trying to erase this, but it will stay in people's minds, they can't erase a whole nation. No imperial power has ever stayed in Jerusalem, not the Ottomans, not the British, and not Israel."
Despite the Arab invaders' incessant attempts to erase the ancient Jewish heritage of Jerusalem, it will always stay in the minds and hearts of her people, who have prayed and wept and yearned for her every single day of their separation from her for more than two thousand years. And, G-d willing, it will stay in our hands as well.
