Jerusalem is famous not only as a holy site for Christianity, Islam and Judaism, but also from the endless struggle between Palestine and Israel. Both Arabs and Jews regarded Jerusalem as a city to be lost.
Jerusalem has a history of three thousand years, and its first thousand years belong to Jewish civilization, and the last two thousand years belong to Christian and Islamic civilizations. As a result, Jerusalem is still divided into the Jewish Quarter (Israelis), the Christian Community (Armenians) and the Arab Quarter (Palestinians).
If historical attribution is followed, it was the Jews who first built the city in Jerusalem, and in the 11th century BC, the Jewish King David established the kingdom of Israel with Jerusalem as its capital. After Solomon succeeded to the throne, solomon's temple was built in Jerusalem.
After the Roman Empire conquered Palestine, the Jews were expelled, and Jerusalem became a Christian center with the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. According to the Bible, Jerusalem was the place of Jesus' crucifixion, so it became a holy place for Christians.
After the rise of the Arab Empire, the first city to conquer the Byzantine Empire was Jerusalem. Islamic believers believe that it was in Jerusalem that Muhammad was conceived to receive the Quran, and thus became a holy place for Islam.
At the beginning of the 11th century, the Fatimid caliph of Egypt, Hakim, ordered the destruction of all Christian churches and synagogues in Jerusalem, deepening the persecution of non-Muslims, and the pilgrimage of Christians to Jerusalem was blocked.
The news of the persecution of Christians by Islamic believers spread to Western Europe, causing the wrath of the Christian countries, and at the call of the Holy See, the European Christian countries began a military operation to recover Jerusalem, which was the famous crusade in history.
The Crusades of Europe fought nine crusades, and although Jerusalem was once recaptured and the Kingdom of Jerusalem was established, it eventually fell into Arab hands under Muslim attacks.
After World War II, the Jews, with the support of Britain and the United States, launched their Restoration Movement, with the intention of establishing a State of Israel with Jerusalem as its capital. The Zionist movement once again sparked war between Arabs and Jews, who remained at the center of contention for the holy city of Jerusalem.
From the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel by the Roman Empire, to the Muslim capture of Jerusalem, to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Over the millennia, Jerusalem has been destroyed in war many times, and has been rebuilt again and again on blood-soaked land, becoming the most devastated city in the world due to the clash of religious civilizations.
To this day, the struggle for Jerusalem between Palestinians and Israelis remains fierce. Although Israel controls all of Jerusalem, it is still unable to expel palestinians. Today Jerusalem is a holy city shared by Muslims, Christians and Jews.
In fact, whether it is Judaism, Christianity or Islam, it all originates from the same Abrahamic religion. Jews and Arabs are half-brothers, and the religious strife in Jerusalem is also fratricidal!
Pope John Paul II once said compassionately that Jerusalem could be an international city, and that both Jews and Arabs wanted to have it alone, just as they had their own souls and could not share it with others.
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