A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been

[P F Tinmore]

It is no overstatement to say that the appearance of The Storyteller of Jerusalem (Olive Branch Press) — Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s memoirs in English — is a very significant event.

Far from being an austere, religious place at the heart of political events, Jawhariyyeh’s Jerusalem is a city with a vibrant nightlife, performances by famous musicians from Cairo and Beirut, songs satirizing contemporary events and personalities and partygoers dabbling in recreational drugs.

Jerusalem in the 1920s, it seems, was less the traditional backwater depicted in some accounts of the British Mandate, and more a city whose affluent cultural scene was a smaller version of that to be found in other cosmopolitan capitals in the region and across Europe.

As well as this unique insight into the leisure lives of the upper classes, Jawhariyyeh’s depictions of late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem give us eyewitness accounts of the diverse society destroyed by the establishment of the State of Israel.

Here, Muslims, Christians and Jews not only lived alongside one another, but participated in each other’s religious festivals and cultural celebrations, drawing no meaningful distinctions between one community and another.

According to these descriptions, the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter were celebrated almost as one huge event in Jerusalem, with participants from the highest ranks of Muslim officials.

A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been | The Electronic Intifada

I have always lamented the destruction of the holy land by Israel.

 

[Phoenall]

It is no overstatement to say that the appearance of The Storyteller of Jerusalem (Olive Branch Press) — Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s memoirs in English — is a very significant event.

Far from being an austere, religious place at the heart of political events, Jawhariyyeh’s Jerusalem is a city with a vibrant nightlife, performances by famous musicians from Cairo and Beirut, songs satirizing contemporary events and personalities and partygoers dabbling in recreational drugs.

Jerusalem in the 1920s, it seems, was less the traditional backwater depicted in some accounts of the British Mandate, and more a city whose affluent cultural scene was a smaller version of that to be found in other cosmopolitan capitals in the region and across Europe.

As well as this unique insight into the leisure lives of the upper classes, Jawhariyyeh’s depictions of late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem give us eyewitness accounts of the diverse society destroyed by the establishment of the State of Israel.

Here, Muslims, Christians and Jews not only lived alongside one another, but participated in each other’s religious festivals and cultural celebrations, drawing no meaningful distinctions between one community and another.

According to these descriptions, the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter were celebrated almost as one huge event in Jerusalem, with participants from the highest ranks of Muslim officials.

A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been | The Electronic Intifada

I have always lamented the destruction of the holy land by Israel.

More destruction at the hands of the muslims in one week that at the hands of Israel in 66 years.


Unless you have evidence of destruction of the holy land from a reputable source ?

 

[pbel]

It is no overstatement to say that the appearance of The Storyteller of Jerusalem (Olive Branch Press) — Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s memoirs in English — is a very significant event.

Far from being an austere, religious place at the heart of political events, Jawhariyyeh’s Jerusalem is a city with a vibrant nightlife, performances by famous musicians from Cairo and Beirut, songs satirizing contemporary events and personalities and partygoers dabbling in recreational drugs.

Jerusalem in the 1920s, it seems, was less the traditional backwater depicted in some accounts of the British Mandate, and more a city whose affluent cultural scene was a smaller version of that to be found in other cosmopolitan capitals in the region and across Europe.

As well as this unique insight into the leisure lives of the upper classes, Jawhariyyeh’s depictions of late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem give us eyewitness accounts of the diverse society destroyed by the establishment of the State of Israel.

Here, Muslims, Christians and Jews not only lived alongside one another, but participated in each other’s religious festivals and cultural celebrations, drawing no meaningful distinctions between one community and another.
According to these descriptions, the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter were celebrated almost as one huge event in Jerusalem, with participants from the highest ranks of Muslim officials.

A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been | The Electronic Intifada

I have always lamented the destruction of the holy land by Israel.

This is what happens when money and politics mix...Israel.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Never mind that the Mufti of Jerusalem sided with Hitler and called for the death of all Jews. We will just skip that part of the history. Ohh and we need to gloss over 5 Arab Armies waging war to kill the Jews as well.

Inconvenient little tidbits, to be sure.

 

[Lipush]

We destroyed the holy land? You useful idiot for Islam, we saved Jerusalem?

and on top of that, you use cheap propaganda from a terrorist cell called "electronic intifada" LMAO

 

[MHunterB]

Gee, funny that he stops in '48 - Isn't that when the Jordanians *OCCUPIED* part of the city?

After they ethnically cleansed it of its Jewish residents, that is.

Funny how the 'narrative' doesn't mention any of that...... foreign invaders attacking resident civilians, shelling their neighborhoods and then forcing them out at gunpoint.

 

[ForeverYoung436]

It is no overstatement to say that the appearance of The Storyteller of Jerusalem (Olive Branch Press) — Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s memoirs in English — is a very significant event.

Far from being an austere, religious place at the heart of political events, Jawhariyyeh’s Jerusalem is a city with a vibrant nightlife, performances by famous musicians from Cairo and Beirut, songs satirizing contemporary events and personalities and partygoers dabbling in recreational drugs.

Jerusalem in the 1920s, it seems, was less the traditional backwater depicted in some accounts of the British Mandate, and more a city whose affluent cultural scene was a smaller version of that to be found in other cosmopolitan capitals in the region and across Europe.

As well as this unique insight into the leisure lives of the upper classes, Jawhariyyeh’s depictions of late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem give us eyewitness accounts of the diverse society destroyed by the establishment of the State of Israel.

Here, Muslims, Christians and Jews not only lived alongside one another, but participated in each other’s religious festivals and cultural celebrations, drawing no meaningful distinctions between one community and another.

According to these descriptions, the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter were celebrated almost as one huge event in Jerusalem, with participants from the highest ranks of Muslim officials.

A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been | The Electronic Intifada

I have always lamented the destruction of the holy land by Israel.

If you would ever visit Jerusalem even once in your lifetime, you would see what a vibrant and exciting a city it still is for all religions! From shopping in the Arab Shuk, to the Christian parade on the Feast of Tabernacles, to the tourists flocking to the Western Wall, to the Muslim muezzin calling in the early dawn, to the Easter processions, to the crazy shopping on Friday before Sabbath, to the church bells ringing, etc.

 

[toastman]

It is no overstatement to say that the appearance of The Storyteller of Jerusalem (Olive Branch Press) — Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s memoirs in English — is a very significant event.

Far from being an austere, religious place at the heart of political events, Jawhariyyeh’s Jerusalem is a city with a vibrant nightlife, performances by famous musicians from Cairo and Beirut, songs satirizing contemporary events and personalities and partygoers dabbling in recreational drugs.

Jerusalem in the 1920s, it seems, was less the traditional backwater depicted in some accounts of the British Mandate, and more a city whose affluent cultural scene was a smaller version of that to be found in other cosmopolitan capitals in the region and across Europe.

As well as this unique insight into the leisure lives of the upper classes, Jawhariyyeh’s depictions of late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem give us eyewitness accounts of the diverse society destroyed by the establishment of the State of Israel.

Here, Muslims, Christians and Jews not only lived alongside one another, but participated in each other’s religious festivals and cultural celebrations, drawing no meaningful distinctions between one community and another.

According to these descriptions, the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter were celebrated almost as one huge event in Jerusalem, with participants from the highest ranks of Muslim officials.

A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been | The Electronic Intifada

I have always lamented the destruction of the holy land by Israel.

Have you ever ever been to Jerusalem??
Destruction of the Holy Land by Israel???

Well, I guess thats the kind of garbage you get from electronic intifada

 

[P F Tinmore]

Editorial Reviews
Review
In this autobiographical memoir of Jerusalemite Jawhariyyeh, a Palestinian Christian, the reader will find intensely personal narratives of a native son amid the backdrop of major events in the holy city and the Holy Land witnessed during the first half of the 20th century. A self-taught chronicler, poet, local historian, and musician, Jawhariyyeh had a photographic memory, which enabled him to recall not only the dramatic but also give vivid, firsthand renditions of daily life in the alleys of the city and its environs. Through this eclectic collection of real stories, observations, and anecdotes the reader is immersed in the life of the city, particularly its Arab quarters. Published initially in Arabic in a more extended version by the Institute for Palestine Studies, this English-language translation attempts to convey the richness of the original work. Extensive notes and a glossary enhance these vivid stories.

Verdict More than a personal memoir, this is eyewitness testimony to major historical events in Jerusalem from the waning days of Ottoman rule and the beginnings of the British mandate to the emergence of the state of Israel. It will prove a valuable source of primary material, recording Palestinian urban life and the rise of national consciousness. Highly recommended for historians of the era and for anyone interested in a legacy of Jerusalem. --Library Journal 11/15/13

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[ForeverYoung436]

One time I spent 2 weeks in a youth hostel in the Old City. There's nothing like waking up in Jerusalem to the sounds of the Muslim muezzin calling, church bells ringing, and the hum of Jewish prayers in progress.

 

[ForeverYoung436]

It is no overstatement to say that the appearance of The Storyteller of Jerusalem (Olive Branch Press) — Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s memoirs in English — is a very significant event.

Far from being an austere, religious place at the heart of political events, Jawhariyyeh’s Jerusalem is a city with a vibrant nightlife, performances by famous musicians from Cairo and Beirut, songs satirizing contemporary events and personalities and partygoers dabbling in recreational drugs.

Jerusalem in the 1920s, it seems, was less the traditional backwater depicted in some accounts of the British Mandate, and more a city whose affluent cultural scene was a smaller version of that to be found in other cosmopolitan capitals in the region and across Europe.

As well as this unique insight into the leisure lives of the upper classes, Jawhariyyeh’s depictions of late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem give us eyewitness accounts of the diverse society destroyed by the establishment of the State of Israel.

Here, Muslims, Christians and Jews not only lived alongside one another, but participated in each other’s religious festivals and cultural celebrations, drawing no meaningful distinctions between one community and another.

According to these descriptions, the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter were celebrated almost as one huge event in Jerusalem, with participants from the highest ranks of Muslim officials.

A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been | The Electronic Intifada

I have always lamented the destruction of the holy land by Israel.

The title of this thread is absolutely ridiculous. It implies that there is no freedom of religion or diversity in culture. Only people who have never been to Jerusalem personally can make such claims. "What might have been?" There's nothing wrong with the way Jerusalem is now!

 

[Roudy]

It is no overstatement to say that the appearance of The Storyteller of Jerusalem (Olive Branch Press) — Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s memoirs in English — is a very significant event.

Far from being an austere, religious place at the heart of political events, Jawhariyyeh’s Jerusalem is a city with a vibrant nightlife, performances by famous musicians from Cairo and Beirut, songs satirizing contemporary events and personalities and partygoers dabbling in recreational drugs.

Jerusalem in the 1920s, it seems, was less the traditional backwater depicted in some accounts of the British Mandate, and more a city whose affluent cultural scene was a smaller version of that to be found in other cosmopolitan capitals in the region and across Europe.

As well as this unique insight into the leisure lives of the upper classes, Jawhariyyeh’s depictions of late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem give us eyewitness accounts of the diverse society destroyed by the establishment of the State of Israel.

Here, Muslims, Christians and Jews not only lived alongside one another, but participated in each other’s religious festivals and cultural celebrations, drawing no meaningful distinctions between one community and another.
According to these descriptions, the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter were celebrated almost as one huge event in Jerusalem, with participants from the highest ranks of Muslim officials.

A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been | The Electronic Intifada

I have always lamented the destruction of the holy land by Israel.

This is what happens when money and politics mix...Israel.

Yeah. Israel is the ONLY PLACE where money and politics mix.

 

[Roudy]

It is no overstatement to say that the appearance of The Storyteller of Jerusalem (Olive Branch Press) — Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s memoirs in English — is a very significant event.

Far from being an austere, religious place at the heart of political events, Jawhariyyeh’s Jerusalem is a city with a vibrant nightlife, performances by famous musicians from Cairo and Beirut, songs satirizing contemporary events and personalities and partygoers dabbling in recreational drugs.

Jerusalem in the 1920s, it seems, was less the traditional backwater depicted in some accounts of the British Mandate, and more a city whose affluent cultural scene was a smaller version of that to be found in other cosmopolitan capitals in the region and across Europe.

As well as this unique insight into the leisure lives of the upper classes, Jawhariyyeh’s depictions of late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem give us eyewitness accounts of the diverse society destroyed by the establishment of the State of Israel.

Here, Muslims, Christians and Jews not only lived alongside one another, but participated in each other’s religious festivals and cultural celebrations, drawing no meaningful distinctions between one community and another.

According to these descriptions, the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter were celebrated almost as one huge event in Jerusalem, with participants from the highest ranks of Muslim officials.

A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been | The Electronic Intifada

I have always lamented the destruction of the holy land by Israel.

The title of this thread is absolutely ridiculous. It implies that there is no freedom of religion or diversity in culture. Only people who have never been to Jerusalem personally can make such claims. "What might have been?" There's nothing wrong with the way Jerusalem is now!

The only time when there wasn't ANY tolerance of other religions is when Arabs controlled it. That is a historical fact.

 

[toastman]

I could only imagine how ugly Jerusalem would be if Arabs had sovereignty over it. Under Israeli control , all the holy sites in Jerusalem are open to all religions.

 

[Roudy]

Yeah, like Muslims were so tolerant when they controlled Jerusalem:

Friction between Jews and Turks was less common than in the Arab territories. Some examples: During the reign of Murad IV (1623–40), the Jews of Jerusalem were persecuted by an Arab who had purchased the governorship of that city from the governor of the province. In 1660 or 1662, under Mehmet IV (1649–87), the city of Safed, with a substantial Jewish community, was destroyed by Arabs

Example of Muslim intolerance: In 1009 AD, Caliph Hakim ordered the destruction of both synagogues and churches, including the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and pressured non-Muslims, especially Christians, to convert to Islam. Word got back to Rome about these desecrations and the Pope ordered a “Crusade” to rescue the Holy Sites and the Christians from “non-believers” or infidels.

An example of Moslem tolerance is when Arab Muslims conquered the city in 638 and the Caliph Umar personally went to Jerusalem to celebrate this momentous victory because it was the place where Mohammed ascended to heaven on the site of the Jewish Temple according to the Hadith, Islam’s second holiest book. He also allowed the Jews re-entry in the city and freedom to worship, along with its Christian residents. [Note: The Covenant of Umar, by Christian request, called for a continued prohibition on Jewish residency in Jerusalem, in addition to very extensive protection of Christian property and rights. However, Umar reneged on the Jewish exclusion provision.

Under the rule of David and his son, Solomon, Jerusalem experienced a peaceful and prosperous coexistence between the new Jewish population and the original Jebusite inhabitants. For example, many of King David’s top army officers were non-Jews and King Solomon was famous for entertaining rulers and other non-Jewish guests from throughout the Middle East in his palace. By the end of Solomon’s reign, Jerusalem was no longer a minor Canaanite city, but a cosmopolitan capital of the Jewish Empire.

 

[Sally]

Gee, funny that he stops in '48 - Isn't that when the Jordanians *OCCUPIED* part of the city?

After they ethnically cleansed it of its Jewish residents, that is.

Funny how the 'narrative' doesn't mention any of that...... foreign invaders attacking resident civilians, shelling their neighborhoods and then forcing them out at gunpoint.

There used to be a poster who actually lived in Jerusalem during the siege. What horrendous circumstances those living there had to experience. Say, maybe if the Arabs cleaned up, rats wouldn't be wandering into their homes in Jerusalem. Perhaps Mr. Tinmore can hire some cleaning crews.

Palestinians: Jews Infesting Jerusalem With Giant Racist Attack Rats | Mere Rhetoric

 

[fairandbalanced]

It is only fair that Jews lay a claim to Medina. At least it used to be a Jewish city, where there is nothing Muslim about Jerusalem.

 

[proudveteran06]

It is no overstatement to say that the appearance of The Storyteller of Jerusalem (Olive Branch Press) — Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s memoirs in English — is a very significant event.

Far from being an austere, religious place at the heart of political events, Jawhariyyeh’s Jerusalem is a city with a vibrant nightlife, performances by famous musicians from Cairo and Beirut, songs satirizing contemporary events and personalities and partygoers dabbling in recreational drugs.

Jerusalem in the 1920s, it seems, was less the traditional backwater depicted in some accounts of the British Mandate, and more a city whose affluent cultural scene was a smaller version of that to be found in other cosmopolitan capitals in the region and across Europe.

As well as this unique insight into the leisure lives of the upper classes, Jawhariyyeh’s depictions of late Ottoman and Mandate Jerusalem give us eyewitness accounts of the diverse society destroyed by the establishment of the State of Israel.

Here, Muslims, Christians and Jews not only lived alongside one another, but participated in each other’s religious festivals and cultural celebrations, drawing no meaningful distinctions between one community and another.

According to these descriptions, the Jewish festival of Passover and Christian Easter were celebrated almost as one huge event in Jerusalem, with participants from the highest ranks of Muslim officials.

A bitter-sweet glimpse into what Jerusalem might have been | The Electronic Intifada

I have always lamented the destruction of the holy land by Israel.

Regarding the destruction of the Holy Land;


The Hebron Massacre of 1929 | Jewish Virtual Library



https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/destoc.html

Before the United Nations voted in favor of the Patition Plan on November 29, 1947, the Arab Legion of Jordan attacked Jerusalem. Their forces blocked Jerusalem's roads and cut off the city's access to water. After bitter fighting, the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City fell to the vastly superior arms and numbers of the Arab Legion. The surviving Jewish inhabitants fled to the "New City," the four-fifths of the capital that Israel successfully held.

The Old City, including the Jewish Quarter, officially fell to Jordan on May 27, 1948. Nearly twenty years later, during the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel's army liberated Jerusalem's Old City, finding the area completely neglected and virtually destroyed.

The following is photographic evidence of a sample of the destruction. All but one of the thirty five synagogues within the Old City were destroyed; those note completely devastated had been used as hen houses and stables filled with dung-heaps, garbage and carcasses. The revered Jewish graveyard on the Mount of Olives was in complete disarray with tens of thousands of tombstones broken into pieces to be used as building materials and large areas of the cemetery leveled to provide a short-cut to a new hotel. Hundreds of Torah scrolls and thousands of holy books had been plundered and burned to ashes.


Massacres of Jews by Muslims before 1948 | EuropeNews

Did Jews and Arab Muslims live in peace before 1948; the state establishment of Israel? - Yahoo Answers





Did Jews and Arab Muslims live in peace before 1948; the state establishment of Israel?
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No, not even close. Arabs have always hated us.
During the rise of Islam, the first encounters between Muslims and Jews resulted in persecution when Muhammad expelled or killed the Jewish tribes of Medina.In Moorish Spain,there was the 1066 Granada massacre, when more than 1,500 Jewish families, numbering 4,000 persons, fell in one day, and in Fez in 1033, when 6,000 Jews were killed. There were further massacres in Fez in 1276 and 1465.
Other mass murders of Jews in Arab lands occurred in Morocco in the 8th century, where whole communities were wiped out by Muslim ruler Idris I; North Africa in the 12th century, where the Almohads either forcibly converted or decimated several communities; Libya in 1785, where Ali Burzi Pasha murdered hundreds of Jews; Algiers, where Jews were massacred in 1805, 1815 and 1830 and Marrakesh, Morocco, where more than 300,000 Jews were murdered between 1864 and 1880.
The Damascus affair occurred in 1840, when an Italian monk and his servant disappeared in Damascus. Immediately following, a charge of ritual murder was brought against a large number of Jews in the city. All were found guilty. The consuls of England, France and Germany as well as Ottoman authorities, Christians, Muslims and Jews all played a great role in this affair. Following the Damascus affair, Pogroms spread through the Middle East and North Africa. Pogroms occurred in: Aleppo (1850, 1875), Damascus (1840, 1848, 1890), Beirut (1862, 1874), Dayr al-Qamar (1847), Jerusalem (1847), Cairo (1844, 1890, 1901-02), Mansura (1877), Alexandria (1870, 1882, 1901-07), Port Said (1903, 1908), Damanhur (1871, 1873, 1877, 1891), Istanbul (1870, 1874), Buyukdere (1864), Kuzguncuk (1866), Eyub (1868), Edirne (1872), Izmir (1872, 1874). There was a massacre of Jews in Baghdad in 1828. There was another massacre in Barfurush in 1867.
In 1839, in the eastern Persian city of Meshed, a mob burst into the Jewish Quarter, burned the synagogue, and destroyed the Torah scrolls. Known as the Allahdad incident. It was only by forcible conversion that a massacre was averted.


Muslims Destroy More Jewish Graves on Mt. Olives | United with Israel

These are only a few examples

" palestine" never existed ( and never will) It is a territory, not a Country. The Jewish people didn't destroy it; the Barbaric Arabs did. You claim everyone " got along" prior to 1948. Obviously, that's a lie . The Jewish people have a long history of being killed and persecuted by their Arab Neighbors. You " claim" Christians and Palestinians got along? Too bad you don't condemn the persecution of Christians by the Palestinians now. You " care" as much about Christians as I do about Palestinians ( which is Zero )

 

[Roudy]

Tinmore wants things like before where Arab animals went around killing Jews and Christians and destroying their places of worship.

Jews had absolutely no access to the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site:

•Under the Jordanian control of East Jerusalem, Jews were denied access to the Western Wall and Temple Mount. Likewise, in Hebron, Jews were not allowed to enter the Tomb of the Patriarchs and other holy places in Bethlehem.

• Similarly, during Jordanian rule (and eventual annexation) of the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967, Israeli Christians were also barred from their own respective Holy Places.

• The Mount of Olives is a Holy Place by UN definition and by doing so, Jordan violated Article VII of the Israel-Jordan General Armistice Agreement (GAA) of 1949.

Jordan destroyed ancient synagogues in the Old City’s Jewish quarter:

• From the period of 1948 to 1967, Jordan demolished 58 synagogues in Jerusalem’s Old City.

• All but one of the ancient synagogues in the Old City were demolished and ravaged during this time by the Jordanians.

Jordan built a hotel on Mount of Olives thus destroying part of oldest and most important Jewish cemetery:

• The Mount of Olives is a mountain ridge east of Jerusalem which from Biblical times until today is a cemetery and the site of many important Biblical events. It is important to not only Jews, but also to Christians and Muslims, and many important religious events are tied to this historical location.

• During the period of Jordanian control over eastern Jerusalem and the Temple Mount from 1948 until 1967, King Hussein of Jordan allowed the construction of a hotel access road to the Intercontinental Hotel which spanned across the Mount of Olives cemetery, where hundreds of Jewish gravestones were bulldozed and desecrated.

**** Let's hear it for this famed "Arab respect and tolerance for others"! **** Ha ha ha!

 

[proudveteran06]

Tinmore wants things like before where Arab animals went around killing Jews and Christians and destroying their places of worship.

Jews had absolutely no access to the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site:

•Under the Jordanian control of East Jerusalem, Jews were denied access to the Western Wall and Temple Mount. Likewise, in Hebron, Jews were not allowed to enter the Tomb of the Patriarchs and other holy places in Bethlehem.

• Similarly, during Jordanian rule (and eventual annexation) of the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem from 1948 to 1967, Israeli Christians were also barred from their own respective Holy Places.

• The Mount of Olives is a Holy Place by UN definition and by doing so, Jordan violated Article VII of the Israel-Jordan General Armistice Agreement (GAA) of 1949.

Jordan destroyed ancient synagogues in the Old City’s Jewish quarter:

• From the period of 1948 to 1967, Jordan demolished 58 synagogues in Jerusalem’s Old City.

• All but one of the ancient synagogues in the Old City were demolished and ravaged during this time by the Jordanians.

Jordan built a hotel on Mount of Olives thus destroying part of oldest and most important Jewish cemetery:

• The Mount of Olives is a mountain ridge east of Jerusalem which from Biblical times until today is a cemetery and the site of many important Biblical events. It is important to not only Jews, but also to Christians and Muslims, and many important religious events are tied to this historical location.

• During the period of Jordanian control over eastern Jerusalem and the Temple Mount from 1948 until 1967, King Hussein of Jordan allowed the construction of a hotel access road to the Intercontinental Hotel which spanned across the Mount of Olives cemetery, where hundreds of Jewish gravestones were bulldozed and desecrated.

Jordan destroyed ancient synagogues in the Old City’s Jewish quarter:

• From the period of 1948 to 1967, Jordan demolished 58 synagogues in Jerusalem’s Old City.

*lets hear it for this famed "Arab respect and tolerance for others* Ha ha ha!

According to " International Law" Jordan by obligation HAD to allow Jews access to their Holy Sites . Of course they didn't and Israel complained to the UN . Know what was done about it? NOTHING ! Ask the Palestinian why they aren't obligated to follow " International Law" . Just more proof it doesn't exist