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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
• 27:17 TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
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