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Jerusalem: History, Truth, and the Indigenous Claim
Jerusalem is not merely a city. It is the beating heart of Jewish history, faith, and identity and one of the most contested places on earth precisely because of that centrality. To understand the modern political conflict surrounding Jerusalem, one must first understand its uninterrupted Jewish connection, how other religions later related to the city, and why contemporary Palestinian claims of exclusive indigeneity collapse under historical and textual scrutiny.
Jerusalem’s Jewish Origins and Continuity
Jerusalem enters recorded history as a Jewish city. Around 3,000 years ago, King David established Jerusalem as the capital of the united Kingdom of Israel. His son, King Solomon, built the First Temple on Mount Moriah, today known as the Temple Mount, making Jerusalem the spiritual, political, and religious center of the Jewish people. This is not mythology; it is documented in archaeology, biblical texts, and external historical sources.
Even after the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians (586 BCE) and the Second Temple by the Romans (70 CE), Jewish presence in Jerusalem never disappeared. Jews prayed toward Jerusalem in exile, mentioned it daily in prayers, and ended Passover every year with the words: “Next year in Jerusalem.” No other people on earth have maintained such a continuous, documented, spiritual, demographic, and legal connection to a city for millennia.
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