SPECTATOR
Without Israeli sovereignty it will become Gaza
by Chaim Silberstein
June 3, 2016

On Sunday Israel celebrates “Jerusalem Day,” the anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem during the Six Day War in 1967. Since the intensification of terrorist activities in Jerusalem last September, the issue of dividing Jerusalem has surfaced yet again. It appears in two main forms — the usual demand from Arabs that Israel vacate the areas it liberated in the Six Day War and a new campaign by former Israeli leftist cabinet minister Haim Ramon’s “Save Jewish Jerusalem” movement. The Labor party opposition chief, Yitzhak Herzog, has expressed similar sentiments. After Israel liberated east Jerusalem in the Six Day War, it incorporated the area previously under Jordanian occupation as well as significantly expanding the borders of the new united Jerusalem. This expanded section known today as “east Jerusalem” ultimately included 28 Arab neighborhoods, comprising today around 300,000 Arabs and 9 large Jewish neighborhoods of over 250,000 Jews (about 45 percent of the total Jewish population in Jerusalem). READ MORE

(2011) A never-released personal account of the liberation of the Old City of Jerusalem by Gen. Uzi Narkis who commanded the liberating forces in June 1967 – filmed by Ashley Lazarus 10 days before General Uzi Narkis passed away in 1997.