{"id":314,"date":"2011-11-26T16:16:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T21:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/isittheendoftheworld\/?p=314"},"modified":"2011-11-26T16:16:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T21:16:48","slug":"nakba-xvii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/isittheendoftheworld\/2011\/11\/nakba-xvii.html","title":{"rendered":"Nakba XVII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this post is tongue-in-cheek. Many readers no doubt would think it overly sarcastic. Yet the Arab obsession with seeing everything Jewish in the Middle East as a disaster makes the title not too far off the mark.<\/p>\n<p>Several momentous calendar dates vie for the title of &#8220;The Catastrophe&#8221; for the Palestinians, but perhaps none is as raw as the Israeli capture of the Old City of Jerusalem on June 7, 1967. It completed Israel&#8217;s conquest in another existential war.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF&#8217;s lightning victory that summer was a political earthquake still being felt around the world. When Israeli paratroopers entered the Old City, it marked the end of &#8220;gentile rule&#8221; in the fabled city.<\/p>\n<p>The status of Jerusalem continues to vex diplomats the world over. And this is exactly what the Bible predicts for the last days.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinians want east Jerusalem as a capitol of a future state. The Israelis insist they will not give it up.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think will happen?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/isittheendoftheworld\/files\/2011\/11\/Six-Day-war-front-page.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/237\/2011\/11\/Six-Day-war-front-page-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this post is tongue-in-cheek. Many readers no doubt would think it overly sarcastic. Yet the Arab obsession with seeing everything Jewish in the Middle East as a disaster makes the title not too far off the mark. 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