88 Friday, September 12, 1980

Jerusalem One City Forever

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TO ALL OUR
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
ROSE and NORMAN RICHMAN
& DR. H.J. RICHMAN

By MENAHEM BEGIN

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TO ALL OUR
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JUDY and HERB SPEISER,
MINDY, ELISA & JONATHAN

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IRMA and JERRY STARR,
GAYLE, LAURA & TODD

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Throughout the ages,
Jews everywhere have ac-
cepted without question the
affirmation "Naaleh et
Yerushalayim al rosh sim-
chatenu" — Jerusalem will
be the center of our rejoic-
ing. It is so today, too.
Recently announcements
have been made to the effect
that Arab sovereignty
should be introduced into
eastern Jerusalem. Pro-
posals have been made that
the Arab inhabitants of
Jerusalem should vote for
the self-governing
authority we had suggested
as an expression of full au-

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SIMON and HELEN CIECK

MENAHEM BEGIN

tonomy for the Arab inhabi-
tants of Judea, Samaria and
the Gaza district.
My response to all these
demands and proposals is:
Jerusalem — east, west,
north, south, all of it — is
under one sovereignty: Is-
rael. Jerusalem is the heart
of our people, its history, its
culture, its dreams, its
prayers, and so it will be for
all generations to come, so
help us God.
Twice I asked to post-
pone my reply about
Jerusalem in order that I
should take time to con-
sider it, and twice I said
that I would not wait
even one minute, that I
would give my answer on
the spot, because of a
famous story in our tradi-
tion.
There was a sage, Rabbi
Amnon of Mainz, the coun-
selor of a great prince, who
loved him dearly. As hap-
pened in those days, the pr-
ince began to insist that
Rabbi Amnon convert. The
sage refused: "How can I
deny the faith of my
forefathers?" The pressure
continued until Rabbi
Amnon said one day, "Your
Royal Highness, give me
three days to consider it."
Then he went home and
took his head into his hands
and said to himself, "0 God
Almighty, what did I do?
What did I say? Do I need
three days to think it over?
Shall I deny my faith, the
faith of my forefathers?"
And he cursed himself.
When the three days had
passed Rabbi Amnon did
not present himself at court.
And so they came for him
and he was brought before
the prince by force. There he
asked that his tongue be cut
out for not rejecting im-
mediately the pressures to
convert.
And his limbs were muti-
lated.
On Kol Nidre night
Rabbi Amnon asked to be
brought to the synagogue
and there he expired. But
before he died, he wrote
the U-Netana Tokef, one
of the most sacred
prayers of our tradition,
which reminds us that on
Yom Kippur it is decided
who will live and who will
die, who will disappear

and who will be born,
who will rise up and who
will be brought low.
Every Yom Kippur we re-
peat that prayer of Rabbi
Amnon. And remembering
Rabbi Amnon, I could not
delay my reply.
Jerusalem is the heart of
our people — and because it
is I could not ask for a day or
two or three to consider giv-
ing it up. It would have been
a denial of our eternal faith
and so I responded on the
spot.
Without hesitation and
without qualification, the
world should know that on
this issue — on Jeruslem its
entirety, its indivisibility,
its Israel sovereignty — it is
Jerusalem, D.C.
Washington is D.C., Dis-
trict of Columbia.
Jerusalem is D.C. —
David's Capital!
Yes, it is sacred to all
three monotheistic reli-
gions. We have always
recognized that. There-
fore we respect the holy
shrines of all religions.
President Carter has said
that Jerusalem should re-
main undivided and that
there should be free access
to the holy shrines of all
religions. I agree with that
formulation. This is the
situation that prevails in
Jerusalem today and will
prevail forever, guAranteed
by law and by the will of the
Jewish people.
It was not always so. The
world was silent for 19 years
of Jordanian occupation of
Jerusalem.
During that time all our
synagogues were destroyed;
the cemetery on the Mount
of Olives, one of our holiest
shrines, where our greatest
sages are buried, was desec-
rated.
For 19 years, we could
not go to the Temple
Mount or to the Kotel
Hamaravi to pray, al-
though we had gone
there for centuries under
all regimes.
The Hadassah Hospital
and the Hebrew University
on Mt. Scopus were almost
completely destroyed. The
Jewish Quarter, which had
existed for centuries, was
destroyed, stone upon stone.
That was the situation
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