West Jerusalem

West Jerusalem refers to the section of Jerusalem captured by Israel following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.


Read more about West Jerusalem:  Division in 1948, Mayors of West Jerusalem

Famous quotes containing the words west and/or jerusalem:

    The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Comfort, comfort ye my people, speak ye peace, thus saith our God;
    comfort those who sit in darkness mourning ‘neath their sorrows’ load.
    Speak ye to Jerusalem of the peace that waits for them;
    tell her that her sins I cover, and her warfare now is over.
    Johann G. Olearius (1611–1684)