{"id":262,"date":"2011-10-14T20:15:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T00:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/isittheendoftheworld\/?p=262"},"modified":"2011-10-14T20:15:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T00:15:36","slug":"sticking-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/isittheendoftheworld\/2011\/10\/sticking-point.html","title":{"rendered":"Sticking Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the little-known sites for tourists in Jerusalem is a small street on the east side of the Old City. It leads to Lion&#8217;s Gate, where Israeli forces broke through on June 7, 1967, and re-took the city.<\/p>\n<p>It was a monumental event for Jews the world over, for it signaled the return of Jewish sovereignty over the city for the first time in 2,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>The event now is the obsession of the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I visit the city, I look at the engraving that marked the site of the IDF paratroopers&#8217; entrance into the Old City. I realize that with the Palestinians wanting, officially, the east side for a future capitol, this presents a thorny problem. Israel claims the entire city will remain in Jewish hands forever.<\/p>\n<p>Almost the entire world says otherwise. <\/p>\n<p>What will be the outcome?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/isittheendoftheworld\/files\/2011\/10\/Gur-street.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/237\/2011\/10\/Gur-street-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the little-known sites for tourists in Jerusalem is a small street on the east side of the Old City. It leads to Lion&#8217;s Gate, where Israeli forces broke through on June 7, 1967, and re-took the city. 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