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| …The taking of Jerusalem 46 years ago, on a Wednesday too it was, was special after more than two weeks of great fear that the Arabs were going to do what they publically crowed they wanted to do – finish Hitler’s work. It generated feelings unlike any other one can imagine. It was not until Wednesday, after 48 hours of the Israeli government saying nothing during the war and the Arab governments publically rejoicing over the “occupation of Tel-Aviv and Haifa already,” that the curtain of secrecy began to lift to expose the reality that not only had Israel survived the threats of scores of millions of Arabs, Israel was now four times larger in area, which fighting had included driving the Jordanians out of the divided city and the taking of the Western Wall and Temple Mount. Not since 63 b.c.e. had there been such a moment… | |||