The true guardians of Jerusalem
Remembering General Edmund Allenby’s entry into the Holy City
There was an old Arab saying, “When the Nile flows into Palestine, then shall the Prophet from the West drive the Turks from Jerusalem.” Except for a short eight-year period in the early 19th century, when the Egyptians conquered and briefly held Jerusalem, the city was subject to the iron rule of the Ottoman Turks for over four hundred years. Christians and Jews, but especially Jews, suffered under Muslim religious demands that non-believers were to be dhimmis─second-class to Islamic believers. Continue reading
