
“A Place for the King”
Zola reviews Jerusalem’s history from the beautiful YMCA building. We hear from a city official and the mayor about the modern city of Jerusalem and its issues.
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Caption transcript for This Is Israel: “A Place for the King” (12/12)
- 00:02 HI, I'M ZOLA LEVITT.
- 00:04 ON TODAY'S PROGRAM, >> WE'RE GOING TO JERUSALEM
- 00:06 AND TALK WITH THE MAYOR OF THAT BUSY CITY, EHUD OLMERT.
- 00:10 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT JERUSALEM WHICH DOES NOT EXIST
- 00:14 IN ANY OTHER PLACE IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
- 00:17 [ music playing ]
- 00:56 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
- 00:58 WELL, THIS IS THE LAST PROGRAM OF OUR "THIS IS ISRAEL SERIES."
- 01:01 I HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED IT.
- 01:03 WE ARE GOING TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER ON THIS PROGRAM,
- 01:05 JERUSALEM.
- 01:07 3000 YEARS AGO, KING DAVID >>MADE IT THE CAPITOL OF ISRAEL.
- 01:10 IT WAS THE JEWISH CAPITOL.
- 01:12 NO OTHER PEOPLE HAS EVER CLAIMED IT AS ITS CAPITOL,
- 01:14 CERTAINLY NOT THE MUSLIMS, OCCUPYING CRUSADERS,
- 01:17 MARMALUKES FROM EGYPT, ET CETERA.
- 01:20 TURKS WHO MARCHED THROUGH THERE.
- 01:22 NO ONE EVER CALLED IT THEIR CAPITOL.
- 01:24 IT IS THE JEWISH CAPITOL AND THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO THAT.
- 01:26 ON THE MAP, OF COURSE,
- 01:28 IT'S IN THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY RIGHT HERE.
- 01:30 THE WEST BANK, SO CALLED, WAS CUT IN THIS WAY SO THE JEWS
- 01:34 ON THEIR SIDE HAVE ACCESS TO JERUSALEM.
- 01:37 IMAGINE DOLING OUT TO PEOPLE ACCESS TO THEIR OWN CAPITOL.
- 01:41 THIS NAME WEST BANK WAS PERFECTED BY THE LATE KING
- 01:43 OF JORDAN IN ORDER TO MAKE IT SEEM SMALL.
- 01:46 IT'S AS YOU CAN SEE HALF >> OF THE ARAB LAND OF ISRAEL.
- 01:50 HE DID FOOL AT LEAST MTV WHEN THEY HAD ARAFAT
- 01:53 ON THEIR PROGRAM IN THE INTRO, THEY SAID THE WEST BANK
- 01:56 AND THEY SHOWED A PICTURE OF THE RIVER BANK, ABOUT 50 YARDS.
- 01:59 THAT'S MORE THAN THAT.
- 02:03 YOU KNOW, JESUS CHRIST WILL RETURN TO THIS CITY AND >> WILL REIGN HERE.
- 02:07 ALL CHRISTIANS WILL RESIDE HERE, INCLUDING YOU.
- 02:09 IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER, YOU WILL RESIDE IN JERUSALEM
- 02:12 FOR A 1000 YEARS UNLESS YOU ARE IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE IN THE >> KINGDOM TO COME.
- 02:18 JERUSALEM IS TRULY A PLACE FOR A KING AND A PLACE FOR A QUEEN.
- 02:21 YOU KNOW, WE WHO ARE THE BRIDE OF CHRIST WILL BE
- 02:23 THE QUEEN OF THE KINGDOM TO COME.
- 02:25 THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEVER THINK ABOUT, BUT YOU KNOW,
- 02:28 REVELATION 19:8 SAYS:
- 02:29 "BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES TO THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB AND
- 02:34 "THE WIFE OF CHRIST HATH MADE HERSELF READY."
- 02:37 AND NOW TO JERUSALEM.
- 02:48 WELL, IN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM ARE TWO BUILDINGS,
- 02:50 EACH UNIQUE WITH >> DIFFERENT PURPOSES
- 02:53 THAT ARE MOST BEAUTIFUL.
- 02:55 BEHIND ME THE MAGNIFICENT YMCA,
- 02:58 CERTAINLY THE FINEST YMCA IN THE WORLD.
- 03:01 AND ACROSS THE STREET, THE KING DAVID HOTEL,
- 03:04 ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT HOTELS.
- 03:07 THE YMCA WAS STARTED HERE IN THE 19th CENTURY
- 03:10 BY THE VERY BRITISH MEN WHO INVENTED THE IDEA
- 03:13 OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
- 03:17 AND IN JERUSALEM, IT WAS MORE THAN A CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION,
- 03:21 IT'S A PLACE OF PEACE FOR ALL RELIGIONS IS THE IDEA.
- 03:25 AND THE BUILDING >>ARCHITECTURE SAYS THAT.
- 03:27 THERE ARE 12 CYPRESS TREES >> IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING
- 03:30 AND THEY REPRESENT >> THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL,
- 03:32 THE 12 DISCIPLES OF JESUS, AND THE 12 FOLLOWERS OF MOHAMMED.
- 03:38 WELL, OBVIOUSLY ON >> A BUSY STREET --
- 03:39 JERUSALEM GOES ON AND ON AROUND US --
- 03:42 AND YOU WILL HEAR TRAFFIC AND SO FORTH.
- 03:45 BETWEEN THESE TWO BUILDINGS IS A VERY BUSY THOROUGHFARE.
- 03:51 AND THERE ARE 40 PILLARS >> EXACTLY IN THE FACADE
- 03:53 OF THE BUILDING AND THEY >> REPRESENT CHRIST'S 40 DAYS
- 03:59 OF TEMPTATION AND THE 40 >>YEARS WANDERING IN THE DESERT.
- 04:01 EITHER END OF THE BUILDING IS LIKE A MOSQUE ON EITHER SIDE
- 04:05 REPRESENTING THE MUSLIM PREFERENCES
- 04:08 AND THE CENTRAL TOWER IS RATHER LIKE THE PILLARS
- 04:11 OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
- 04:13 AND HAVE THE TWO WINDOWS >> IN IT THAT LOOK THAT WAY.
- 04:15 AND CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM >> AND JEWISH SYMBOLS THROUGHOUT
- 04:18 THE BUILDING AND THE PLACE IS DEDICATED TO EVERYBODY PUTTING
- 04:22 THEIR DIFFERENCES ASIDE, >>COMING TOGETHER, PLAYING SPORTS,
- 04:26 FELLOWSHIPPING TOGETHER AND THEY DO THAT.
- 04:29 THERE'S TENNIS HERE AND HAND BALL,
- 04:31 GYM EQUIPMENT LIKE ANY YMCA.
- 04:33 THERE'S ROOMS FOR THE NIGHT AND THERE'S A COUPLE
- 04:36 OF NICE RESTAURANTS AND THERE'S EVEN A MESSIANIC
- 04:39 CONGREGATION THAT MEETS HERE ON THE OUTER PORCH ON SUNDAYS.
- 04:43 OUR TOUR GROUP HAS ATTENDED SERVICES WITH THAT CONGREGATION.
- 04:47 AND THE PLACE GOES ON IN ONE OF THE BUSIEST AND SOME SAY MOST
- 04:53 CONTENTIOUS PLACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ALWAYS A SCENE OF PEACE.
- 05:01 [ music playing ]
- 05:23 WELL, WE ARE AT THE LITTLE CAFE WHERE LUNCH IS SERVED.
- 05:26 THE PORCH OF THE YMCA AND THE HEART OF JERUSALEM --
- 05:31 WHICH YOU KNOW, WAS A JEWISH CITY TO BEGIN WITH 1000 YEARS
- 05:35 BEFORE CHRIST WHEN KING DAVID CAPTURED THE CITY
- 05:38 FROM THE GEBUSITES, >> THAT WAS IN II SAMUEL 5, >>TELLS FROM VERSE 6-10,
- 05:43 AND THEN LATER, >> OF COURSE, MUSLIMS CAME,
- 05:47 CHRISTIANS CAME, >> AND SO FORTH,
- 05:49 AND THE CITY BECAME THE HEART OF THREE RELIGIONS.
- 05:54 THERE ARE THREE SECTIONS >> IN THIS BUILDING THAT EXPRESS
- 05:57 THE MUSLIM/CHRISTIAN/JEWISH SECTORS OF THE CITY.
- 06:03 THERE'S THREE SECTIONS OF THE CITY.
- 06:04 THE OLD CITY, THE ORIGINAL, THE NEW CITY BASICALLY WHICH JEWISH
- 06:09 PEOPLE HAVE BUILT SINCE 1948 AND EAST JERUSALEM WHICH HAS BEEN
- 06:14 GENERALLY OCCUPIED BY ARAB PEOPLE FOR A LONG TIME.
- 06:16 AND SO THERE ARE THREE RELIGIONS LIVE TOGETHER MORE OR LESS.
- 06:22 OF COURSE, IT IS ALWAYS UNDER DISCUSSION.
- 06:25 90 PERCENT OF THE TOURIST WHO VISIT ISRAEL CERTAINLY VISIT
- 06:28 JERUSALEM AND OF THOSE, 70 PERCENT ARE NOT JEWISH.
- 06:33 THEY ARE CHRISTIAN TOURIST OR THE TOURIST FROM THE ORIENT
- 06:36 OR EUROPE OR WHATEVER, NOT JEWISH PEOPLE.
- 06:39 I SHOULD SAY WHEN I DISCUSS THE THREE SECTIONS OF JERUSALEM,
- 06:43 THAT THE NEW CITY, THE ONE BUILT SINCE 1948 BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE
- 06:46 IS 20 TIMES BIGGER THAN THE OLD CITY.
- 06:51 IT REALLY IS JERUSALEM.
- 06:53 EAST JERUSALEM IS QUITE SMALL, TOO.
- 06:55 IT WOULD BE LIKE COMPARING >> MANHATTAN WITH THE OTHER >>BURROUGHS OF NEW YORK.
- 07:00 IT'S REALLY THE MAIN PART OF THE PLACE.
- 07:03 BUT AS WE SAY, JESUS WALKED THROUGHOUT
- 07:05 CITY STREETS IN THE OLD CITY.
- 07:07 IT WAS ALWAYS A PLACE OF >>RELIGION, A PLACE OF POLITICS,
- 07:11 THEN AND NOW, EVEN GOING BACK TO DAVID'S TIME
- 07:14 THIS WAS A CENTER OF DISCUSSION OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED
- 07:18 IN THE AREA, OF COURSE, ISRAEL ITSELF IS A CROSSROADS OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
- 07:25 AND THIS IS ALWAYS GOING TO HAPPEN HERE.
- 07:27 JERUSALEM, OF COURSE, >> IS THE CAPITOL NOW >>OFFICIALLY OF ISRAEL.
- 07:33 AND IT WAS RECAPTURED BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE '67 WAR,
- 07:37 IN THE SIX-DAY WAR AND IN 1980, OFFICIALLY MADE THE CAPITOL
- 07:41 AGAIN AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF KING DAVID 3000 YEARS BEFORE.
- 07:46 AFTER ALL, THE KNESSET IS HERE.
- 07:49 THE CONGRESS, THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COUNTRY IS IN JERUSALEM, >> NOT IN TEL AVIV.
- 07:52 WE -- AMERICA ARE AMONG THOSE NATIONS WHICH PREFER TEL AVIV
- 07:56 SO AS NOT TO UPSET THE ARAB PEOPLE.
- 07:59 BUT THE KNESSET IS IN JERUSALEM.
- 08:02 IT'S SO FUNNY, OUR EMBASSY IS IN TEL AVIV AND THEY ALWAYS HAVE TO
- 08:05 DRIVE THE 45 MILES OR SO >> TO VISIT THE KNESSET
- 08:08 AND BACK AND FORTH BECAUSE WE STUBBORNLY REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS CAPITOL.
- 08:13 YOU KNOW WHEN WIESMAN SPOKE TO DAVID BELFOUR ORIGINALLY,
- 08:18 THE ENGLISH WERE TRYING TO IMPRESS THE JEWS TO GO TO
- 08:22 SOME OTHER COUNTRY TO ESTABLISH THEIR HOMELAND.
- 08:25 UGANDA WAS SUGGESTED >> OF ALL PLACES IN AFRICA.
- 08:29 AND FINALLY WEISMAN WHO WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL SAID
- 08:34 TO DAVID BELFOUR, OF THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT,
- 08:37 "JERUSALEM WAS OUR CAPITOL WHEN LONDON WAS A MARSH."
- 08:40 THAT IS QUITE TRUE.
- 08:42 IN FACT, JERUSALEM WAS THE JEWISH CAPITOL WHEN
- 08:45 ROME AND GREECE WERE NOT EVEN THOUGHT OF YET IN THE TIME OF KING DAVID.
- 08:49 THERE WERE NO >> OTHER EUROPEAN CAPITOLS,
- 08:52 NONE AT THE TIME THAT JERUSALEM WAS THE JEWISH CAPITOL.
- 08:55 WELL, THE DEBATE OVER THE CAPITOL RAGES ON >> AND SCRIPTURE COVERS IT.
- 09:26 WE'RE SEEMING TO COME TO THAT TIME RATHER RAPIDLY.
- 09:29 THIS IS JUST THE >> NATURE OF THIS PLACE.
- 09:32 IN I KINGS 3, WE HEAR THE ORIGINAL COMMENDATION OF GOD
- 09:40 ON THIS CITY WHERE GOD IS TALKING TO KING SOLOMON
- 09:44 WHO HAS BUILT THE TEMPLE.
- 10:01 IT'S PRETTY STRONG.
- 10:02 GOD CHOSE THIS PLACE AS HIS CAPITOL ALSO.
- 10:05 AND JERUSALEM NOW IS IN A SENSE PREPARING TO RECEIVE HER KING.
- 10:10 THE END TIMES ARE HERE.
- 10:12 MANY TEACHERS SAY SO AND I >> CERTAINLY AGREE WITH IT.
- 10:15 AND ZECHARIAH 8 SAYS:
- 10:18 THUS SAITH THE LORD, "I AM RETURNED UNTO ZION."
- 10:21 ALMOST AS IF HE IS TALKING --
- 10:24 I HAVE ESTABLISHED MYSELF HERE BACK IN DAVID'S TIME
- 10:27 AND NOW, I'VE COME BACK ALONG WITH MY PEOPLE.
- 10:53 OLD PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE, THE WHOLE SOCIETY WILL BE
- 10:56 PEACEFUL AND RECEPTIVE OF THE LORD WHEN THE KING RETURNS.
- 11:00 THIS REALLY IS A >> PLACE FOR THE KING.
- 11:03 IT'S NOT LIKE THE HIGH PLACES, ESTABLISHED BY THE PAGANS
- 11:06 ALL THROUGH THE AGES, BUT RATHER,
- 11:10 IN THE MIDST OF THE CITY, THE TEMPLE OF THE KING WILL STAND.
- 11:13 AND PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL COME TO THIS CITY.
- 11:16 ZECHARIAH 14:16 IS HEARTENING.
- 11:31 THE FEAST OF TABERNACLE >> IS A STUNNING, WONDERFUL
- 11:33 FESTIVAL OF THANKSGIVING, ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT TO AMERICAN
- 11:37 THANKSGIVING AND ALSO HAPPENS IN THE FALL, USUALLY IN OCTOBER.
- 11:41 AND THAT WILL BE A FESTIVAL THAT WE WILL ALL ATTEND IN THE KINGDOM TO COME.
- 11:46 WHEREVER WE'RE LIVING, IF WE'RE MARRIED TO THE KING,
- 11:49 PRESUMABLY WE ARE LIVING HERE.
- 11:51 BUT IF YOU ARE LIVING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY,
- 11:52 YOU'LL COME HERE AT LEAST ONCE EACH YEAR AND CELEBRATE
- 11:55 THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
- 11:58 YOU KNOW, AN 18th CENTURY POLISH RABBI'S DAUGHTER WROTE THIS ON HER WEDDING INVITATION.
- 12:11 THIS IS WAY BEFORE THE JEWS WERE IN JERUSALEM.
- 12:14 THEN SHE WRITES:
- 12:24 SHE WAS SO TRUSTING OF THE LORD, THAT SHE WROTE IT JUST THAT WAY.
- 12:38 [ music playing ]
- 12:46 COME WITH ZOLA LEVITT AND SEE FOR YOURSELF
- 12:48 THE LAND OF THE COVENANT.
- 12:51 ZOLA PUTS ON ONE OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR TRIPS YOU COULD EVER BE ON.
- 12:55 THE WHOLE GROUP, EVERYBODY JUST PUTS EVERYTHING TOGETHER.
- 12:57 IT'S SPECTACULAR.
- 13:00 WITH WHAT WAS CHOSEN FOR US TO DO AS WELL AS WHO GUIDED US
- 13:04 AND WHO SPOKE WITH US, THE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE TRIP.
- 13:09 IT WAS WONDERFUL.
- 13:10 OTHER PEOPLE SAID THEY WENT ON CRUISES AND TRIPS LIKE THIS
- 13:13 AND IT WAS ALL HISTORICAL AND THEY SAW A LOT OF SITES
- 13:15 BUT THIS WAS SPIRITUAL AND THIS WAS REALLY GOOD.
- 13:18 SO I'M REALLY GLAD I PICKED ZOLA LEVITT'S GROUP
- 13:22 TO TOUR THE HOLY LAND.
- 13:27 TOUR THE HOLY LAND WITH ZOLA LEVITT.
- 13:29 CALL OR WRITE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
- 13:39 WELL, SEE ISRAEL FOR YOURSELF.
- 13:40 THAT'S THE THING TO DO.
- 13:42 DON'T DEPEND ON US TO SHOW IT TO YOU.
- 13:44 I'M GLAD YOU'RE WATCHING, BUT I THINK YOU OUGHT
- 13:46 TO TAKE A TOUR IN THIS LIFE.
- 13:48 WITH US OR SOMEONE ELSE, >> THAT'S FINE.
- 13:51 WELL, JERUSALEM IS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE OVER AND OVER
- 13:54 A THOUSAND TIMES, I DON'T KNOW.
- 13:55 YOU KNOW THAT IT'S NOT MENTIONED IN THE KORAN AT ALL.
- 13:59 THE HOLY BOOK OF THE MUSLIMS.
- 14:00 JERUSALEM IS NOT >> HOLY TO THE MUSLIMS.
- 14:03 JERUSALEM IS NOT >> HOLY TO THE MUSLIMS.
- 14:06 IT'S A POLITICAL IDEA.
- 14:07 PEOPLE OF THE MENTALITY OF THE ARAFAT
- 14:11 AND THE KING OF SAUDI ARABIA AND PEOPLE OF THAT NATURE DECIDED IT >> WILL BE.
- 14:16 BUT IT ISN'T MENTIONED IN THE KORAN.
- 14:18 THE BEST ARGUMENT THEY HAVE IS THAT MOHAMMED DREAMED THAT HE
- 14:22 RODE HIS HORSE FROM A FAR MOSQUE OR SANCTUARY TO HEAVEN AND THEY
- 14:28 DECIDED TO SAY WELL, THAT WILL BE JERUSALEM.
- 14:30 THEY PICKED IT OUT.
- 14:31 THEY COULD HAVE PICKED NEW YORK CITY OR WASHINGTON.
- 14:33 I'LL ARGUE THAT POINT WITH ANY MUSLIM FROM THE KORAN,
- 14:36 THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM.
- 14:38 YOU KNOW PEOPLE GET >> THIS PLACED SO MIXED UP.
- 14:40 A RECENT COLUMN SAID >> IN THE WASHINGTON TIMES,
- 14:44 "JERUSALEM IS A PLACE OF MOSES,
- 14:46 "MOHAMMED AND JESUS ALL WALKED THERE."
- 14:49 NO, SIR, ONLY JESUS OF THOSE THREE WALKED THERE.
- 14:52 MOHAMMED NEVER VISITED IT MOSES DIDN'T EITHER.
- 14:55 JERUSALEM IS PRECIOUS TO JEWS AND CHRISTIANS.
- 14:58 IT IS NOT PRECIOUS TO MUSLIMS BUT THEY PRETENDED IT IS.
- 15:01 THE JEWS AND THE CHRISTIANS HAVE A REAL STAKE IN THIS.
- 15:05 I TALKED TO THE BUSIEST MAYOR IN THE WORLD, EHUD OLMERT,
- 15:09 THE MAYOR OF JERUSALEM.
- 15:11 MAYOR OLMERT, IN AMERICA >>AND THE WESTERN WORLD,
- 15:15 THE NEWS ABOUT JERUSALEM >> TENDS TO BE VERY NEGATIVE,
- 15:18 DUSTY STREETS, PEOPLE PUSHING EACH OTHER,
- 15:21 WORSE THAN THAT AND YET WHEN WE COME HERE,
- 15:24 IT LOOKS LIKE A PEACEFUL, VERY BEAUTIFUL CITY.
- 15:27 IT CERTAINLY IS A VERY BEAUTIFUL CITY AND PEACEFUL CITY.
- 15:30 YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE.
- 15:32 THE PROBLEM OF JERUSALEM >>IS BECAUSE OF ITS VERY UNIQUE STATUS.
- 15:39 ENORMOUS SIGNIFICANCE FOR WORLD HISTORY,
- 15:43 FOR SO MANY DIFFERENT BELIEVERS,
- 15:44 SO MANY DIFFERENT RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD.
- 15:46 THERE IS ENORMOUS SENSITIVITY ABOUT JERUSALEM
- 15:49 WHICH IS DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER CITY
- 15:54 IN THE WORLD, THEREFORE, >>ANY KIND OF EVENT WHICH WOULD BE
- 15:59 HARDLY MENTIONED OR EVEN NOTICED IN BIGGER CITIES IN DIFFERENT
- 16:07 PARTS OF THE WORLD, IMMEDIATELY BECOMES A GLOBAL
- 16:11 EVENT WHERE IT IS -- WHEN IT TAKES PLACE IN JERUSALEM.
- 16:16 EVERYTHING THAT TAKES PLACE HERE IS IMMEDIATELY A GLOBAL EVENT.
- 16:21 SO THINGS TEND TO BLOW OUT OF THEIR REAL PROPORTIONS.
- 16:26 BUT THERE ARE MORE VIOLENT EVENTS IN AMERICA OR IN EUROPE.
- 16:35 THERE ARE MORE INSECURITIES, IN TERMS OF PERSONAL SAFETY
- 16:39 AND SECURITY FOR INDIVIDUALS IN MOST MAJOR CITIES
- 16:42 IN THE WORLD THAN THERE ARE IN JERUSALEM.
- 16:45 JERUSALEM IS CLEANER, IS NICER, IS CERTAINLY MORE BEAUTIFUL.
- 16:50 AND MORE INSPIRING THAN ANY OTHER CITY.
- 16:57 OKAY, YOU GO TO NEW YORK >> AND I LOVE NEW YORK
- 16:59 AND YOU WILL SEE THESE HIGH RISES AND BIG TOWERS, OKAY,
- 17:03 AFTER YOU HAVE SEEN FIVE, YOU GET THE IDEA.
- 17:06 THERE IS 5000.
- 17:10 YOU GO TO MIAMI AND GO TO TEL AVIV AND YOU ASK YOURSELF
- 17:13 WHICH IS MIAMI AND WHICH IS TEL AVIV?
- 17:16 IT IS YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE CITIES,
- 17:20 THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT >>JERUSALEM WHICH DOES NOT EXIST
- 17:24 IN ANY OTHER PLACE IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
- 17:28 WHEN YOU THINK THAT JUST >> ACROSS FROM WHERE WE SIT NOW, 500 METERS.
- 17:34 IN ONE SQUARE KILOMETER, >>WE HAVE MORE HOLY SITES
- 17:39 THAT ARE IMPORTANT AND SIGNIFICANT FOR MORE BELIEVERS,
- 17:45 OF MORE RELIGIONS ACROSS THE WORLD THAN ANY OTHER PLACE IN >> THE WHOLE WORLD.
- 17:53 WHEN YOU THINK OF ALL OF >> THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL EVENTS
- 17:58 OF OUR CIVILIZATIONS, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THIS SMALL PLACE,
- 18:03 WHEN YOU KNOW THAT WHEN YOU COME THERE,
- 18:07 YOU CAN LOOK AT PLACES OF WHICH YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
- 18:12 NOW THIS IS NOT FICTION.
- 18:14 THIS IS NOT FAIRY TALE.
- 18:16 THIS IS REALITY.
- 18:18 YOU WALK THROUGH THE HILLS WHERE KING DAVID WALKED.
- 18:23 THIS IS NOT A STORY.
- 18:25 WE HAVE THE REMAINS OF THE HOUSE OF KING DAVID
- 18:27 JUST OUTSIDE OF THE WALL IN JERUSALEM.
- 18:31 YOU LOOK AT ABSALOM -- WHICH YOU READ ABOUT
- 18:35 IN THE BIBLE THAT KING DAVID BUILT FOR HIS SON AFTER HIS SON
- 18:40 TRIED TO ASSASSINATE HIM >> AND HE EULOGIZED HIM IN ONE
- 18:44 OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PIECES OF POETRY THAT WAS EVER WRITTEN
- 18:47 BY ANY HUMAN BEING IN HISTORY.
- 18:50 ALL OF THAT IS HERE.
- 18:53 IT CANNOT COMPARE TO ANYTHING.
- 18:55 SO, IT IS TRUE THAT JERUSALEM IS FILLED
- 18:58 WITH ALL KINDS OF DIFFICULTIES AND PROBLEMS AND CONTRADICTIONS
- 19:01 WHICH IS PART OF >> THE FASCINATION OF THIS CITY.
- 19:05 BUT HOW CAN IT BE ANY OTHER PLACE?
- 19:08 PART OF THE YOUR JOB IS KEEPING ALLIANCE ACROSS TOWN.
- 19:11 WE WENT TO THE ORIENT HOUSE
- 19:13 AND WE'VE INTERVIEWED FAISAL HUSSEINI,
- 19:16 WHO IS CLAIMING TO BE A PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY
- 19:20 REPRESENTATIVE FOR JERUSALEM
- 19:22 AND FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES,
- 19:25 PUTS HIMSELF OUT >>AS THE MAYOR OF EAST JERUSALEM.
- 19:28 THAT MUST BE A THORN IN YOUR SIDE.
- 19:31 WHAT GOES ON WITH THE OTHER SIDE?
- 19:33 THIS IS A VIRTUAL STAGES.
- 19:36 REALLY IT IS NOT OF ANY PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE.
- 19:42 FAISAL HUSSEINI, HAS NO AUTHORITY TO TAKE ANY DECISION
- 19:44 REGARDING THE LIFE OF PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM OR THEIR WHEREABOUTS
- 19:48 OR THEIR WELL BEING.
- 19:50 HE CAN'T BUILD ONE SCHOOL.
- 19:53 HE CAN'T OPEN ONE SCHOOL.
- 19:54 HE CAN'T GIVE ONE PERMIT.
- 19:57 HE CAN'T GIVE ONE LICENSE.
- 19:58 HE CAN'T IMPOSE A CERTAIN RESTRICTION.
- 20:01 IT IS MORE LIKE A POLITICAL RHETORIC.
- 20:04 AS FAR AS POLITICAL RHETORIC IS CONCERNED, HE'S AN EXPERT.
- 20:08 THAT'S MORE OR LESS WHAT IT IS.
- 20:09 ONE THING I CAN DO IS TRY TO ENGAGE MYSELF
- 20:15 IN ALMOST ENDLESS BATTLES,
- 20:20 VERBAL BATTLES WITH FAISAL HUSSEINI OF WHAT IS THE REAL STAGE.
- 20:26 I FIND IT TOTALLY UNNECESSARY BECAUSE I AM NOT INTERESTED ON WASTING MY ENERGIES ON RHETORIC.
- 20:32 EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE ONLY PERSON WHO HOLDS THE REAL POWER
- 20:37 IN TERMS OF RUNNING THE CITY,
- 20:39 IN TERMS OF MAKING THE DISCUSSION AND EFFECTING
- 20:41 THE QUALITY OF PEOPLE >> REGARDLESS WHERE THEY ARE.
- 20:45 BUT AS LONG AS THEY ARE IN >>JERUSALEM, IS THE MAYOR MYSELF,
- 20:48 NOT FAISAL HUSSEINI.
- 20:50 WE ENTERED INTO DAVID BAR-ILLAN,
- 20:52 WHO POINTED OUT THAT DURING THE COLD WAR,
- 20:55 THE RUSSIANS TENDED TO COME TO AMERICA AND TELEVISE
- 20:58 AND IT WAS NOT THAT THEY TOLD LIES BUT WHAT THEY
- 21:00 PUT ON TELEVISION WAS PEOPLE STANDING IN LINES FOR FOOD
- 21:05 AND NEGATIVE THINGS AND BY SHOWING NOTHING BUT NEGATIVE
- 21:09 THINGS GAVE THE PLACE A BAD NAME.
- 21:12 GAVE AMERICA A BAD NAME IN RUSSIA.
- 21:14 EXACTLY RIGHT.
- 21:15 THE RUSSIANS S SAW NOTHING BUT THESE PICTURES
- 21:17 AND I'M BEGINNING TO THINK THE SAME THING HAPPENS TO JERUSALEM.
- 21:19 RUSSIANS WAITING IN THE LINES IN RUSSIA TO BUY BREAD IN A
- 21:26 STORE WERE SHOWN PICTURES OF AMERICANS DOING THE SAME.
- 21:30 AND THEY BELIEVE IT THEMSELVES AND THEY KNEW THE REALITIES
- 21:34 AND I THINK THIS IS TRUE ABOUT THE PERCEPTION
- 21:37 REGARDING JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM IS A CITY OF GREAT FASCINATION
- 21:44 AND ALSO I THINK A CITY WHERE TOLERANCE IS REALLY
- 21:49 A MAJOR INGREDIENT IN THE LIGHT.
- 21:53 THERE ARE VERY GOOD RELATIONS AMONGST OF THE POPULATIONS IN JERUSALEM.
- 21:59 BUT THERE IS A DESIRE, BY LOTS OF POLITICAL FACTIONS
- 22:06 TO PORTRAY JERUSALEM IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
- 22:12 THIS IS NOT TRUE.
- 22:14 AND TO LOOK TO THE PAST, >> MAYOR, TEDDY KOLLECK WHOM WE
- 22:17 ALSO INTRUDE WAS >>IN OFFICE FOR 20 YEARS.
- 22:21 OVER 20.
- 22:23 DO YOU ANTICIPATE BEING PRIME MINISTER SOME DAY,
- 22:29 YOU WILL STAY IN >>LEADERSHIP POSITION?
- 22:31 NOT THAT LONG AS MAYOR.
- 22:33 I THINK IT IS WRONG >> TO BE MAYOR SO MANY YEARS
- 22:37 AND THIS IS MY OBSERVATION >>ALSO ABOUT THE LAST FEW TERMS
- 22:42 OF TEDDY KOLLECK WHO HAD TERMS TOO MUCH.
- 22:46 AND ALTHOUGH HE WAS A GREAT MAYOR.
- 22:47 BUT I THINK YOU CAN'T HOLD, YOU CAN'T KEEP THE SAME KIND
- 22:53 OF EFFICIENCY AND THE >> SAME KIND OF ENTHUSIASM
- 22:58 ABOUT WHAT >> YOU DO IN SUCH A LONG TIME.
- 23:02 THERE'S ALWAYS A DANGER OF >>FALLING IN A CERTAIN ROUTINE.
- 23:06 WHICH BY THE WAY, >> IS NOT BAD WHEN YOU RUN MIAMI OR DETROIT OR ST.
- 23:13 LOUIS OR TEL AVIV OR HYFFA, BUT NOT WHEN YOU RUN JERUSALEM.
- 23:22 THAT'S SPECIAL.
- 23:23 YOU MUST OBTAIN WITHIN YOURSELF THE ENTHUSIASM AND EXCITEMENT.
- 23:28 AND BECAUSE WITHOUT IT, WHAT IS LEFT FOR YOU TO DO
- 23:34 IN A CITY LIKE JERUSALEM?
- 23:37 AND YOU CAN'T DO IT 25 YEARS YOU KNOW.
- 23:40 IT CAN BE DONE 10 YEARS 14 YEARS,
- 23:43 I THINK THAT'S ENOUGH.
- 23:47 [ music playing ]
- 25:09 WELL, AT THIS LAST PROGRAM OF OUR SERIES, "THIS IS ISRAEL,"
- 25:13 I HOPE WE ACCOMPLISHED WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO.
- 25:16 WHAT THE NETWORKS, ET CETERA,
- 25:18 JUST WILL NOT DO AND THAT IS SHOW YOU ISRAEL AS IT REALLY IS.
- 25:22 THEY SHOW YOU ISRAEL AS A WAR-TORN PLACE
- 25:25 AND DUSTY VILLAGES AND COPS AND KIDS AND SO FORTH.
- 25:27 THAT'S JUST SILLY, THAT'S HARDLY ENCOURAGED AT ALL.
- 25:30 WE HAVE SHOWN YOU WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON THERE.
- 25:34 THE MEDIA IS IN BUSINESS TO REPORT PROBLEMS ALL THE WAY FROM
- 25:37 YOUR LOCAL TV NEWS IN YOUR HOME
- 25:39 TOWN PAPER TO THE GIANT NETWORKS,
- 25:42 THAT'S ALL THEY DO, IS CYNICISM AND NEGATIVISM
- 25:44 AND IN SOME CASES IT IS BAD.
- 25:48 AS I SAID BEFORE, IF ISRAEL WAS A PERSON THEY WOULD HAVE SUED
- 25:51 FOR LIBEL AND WON THE CASE.
- 25:54 IT IS TERRIBLE THE WAY THEY DESCRIBE IT.
- 25:56 WE BELIEVERS MUST SUPPORT ISRAEL.
- 25:59 WE MUST SUPPORT THE HOME OF THE KINGDOM TO COME.
- 26:01 FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE IT CAN START TONIGHT.
- 26:04 WE WILL HAVE TO GIVE IT SOME SUPPORT IF WE ARE GOING TO LIVE
- 26:06 THERE A THOUSAND YEARS.
- 26:07 IF I AM READING THE BIBLE CORRECTLY
- 26:10 THAT'S WHERE WE ARE GOING.
- 26:11 THEY ASKED JESUS.
- 26:12 WILT THOU AT THIS TIME RESTORE THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN UNTO ISRAEL?
- 26:15 WELL, WE'RE GOING THERE.
- 26:17 AND WE ARE GOING TO LIVE THERE AND BE THE QUEEN OF THE KING TO COME.
- 26:20 AND WE MUST BE AT LEAST INTERESTED IN IT
- 26:22 AND SUPPORT THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
- 26:24 CAN'T WE AT LEAST LOVE WHO GOD LOVES?
- 26:27 HE PICKED THEM OUT.
- 26:28 OKAY, YOU MAY THINK HE HAS BAD TASTE.
- 26:29 THAT'S UP TO YOU.
- 26:31 BUT CAN YOU DO WHAT GOD DOES AND LOVE THEM A LITTLE BIT
- 26:34 AT LEAST STOP CRITICIZING OR GET AFTER THOSE WHO DO.
- 26:38 JESUS CHRIST IS GOING TO RETURN TO THE LAND HE LEFT.
- 26:42 JESUS CHRIST NEVER LEFT ISRAEL OTHER THAN WHEN HE WAS A BABY
- 26:45 WHEN HIS PARENTS >> TOOK HIM TO EGYPT.
- 26:46 BUT HE WITNESSED >>IN ISRAEL TO JEWS ONLY.
- 26:50 AND WE OUGHT TO DO WHAT HE DOES.
- 26:54 DO YOU WITNESS TO JEWS?
- 26:55 IF NOT, GIVE US SUPPORT,
- 26:58 WE'LL GET THEM FOR YOU.
- 26:59 WE GO OUT THERE,
- 26:59 WE GO ALL OF THE TIME.
- 27:01 YOU KNOW, PAUL SAYS YOU HAVE
- 27:02 CREDIT IF YOU SUPPORT A MINISTRY
- 27:04 WITH WHAT THAT MINISTRY >> ACCOMPLISHES.
- 27:07 AND SO HE'S COMING BACK TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
- 27:09 ARE YOU READY TO GO WITH HIM? IF YOU ARE SAVED,
- 27:12 IF YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST,
- 27:14 YOU WILL GO TO JERUSALEM FOR THAT THOUSAND YEARS WITH HIM
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