and right, rich and poor,
secular and religious,
Ashkenazi and Sephardi.
Fear of the consequences of
these escalating internal
rifts was given expression by
Prime Minister Shamir last
week when he addressed a
ceremony at which he was
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-_ awarded the honorary
citizenship of Jerusalem.
In a moving, lyrical
speech, which contrasted
sharply with his usually
dour style, Shamir — former
Jewish underground leader,
former Mossad executive,
former Speaker of Israel's
parliament — recalled his
early student days when he
wandered through the Holy
City "like a dreamer."
"I was captivated by the
magical landscape of the Ju-
dean Desert," he said, "and
the Gilead Mountains which
observed me on the heights
of Mount Scopus.
"With deep excitement
and with reverence, I walked
the streets and alleys of the
Old City, and I could not for
a moment stop my heart
from pounding or free myself
from the powerful experi-
ence of walking in places
where prophets and priests,
kings, army generals and
joyous pilgrims from all over
the land walked thousands
of years before."
Yitzhak Shamir still takes
walks through Jerusalem,
but these days different
thoughts crowd his mind.
These "inner thoughts"
contained the essence of the
message he had come to
deliver:
"Much Jewish blood has
been spilt within the walls of
Jerusalem — and not only at
the hands of conquerors and
foreign destroyers," he said.
"During several periods,
civil wars raged from within,
weakening us and even
assisting our enemies in
penetrating the walls and
bringing about the destruc-
tion.
"Remembering the
tragedies and fraternal
hatred which ravaged
Jerusalem in past genera-
tions and which accelerated
the destruction of the Tem-
ple and of our independence,
we must learn the historical
lesson and make a firm deci-
sion that there will be no
more civil wars and frater-
nal hatred in Jerusalem,
Israel's capital."
Shamir hinted that
"difficult and bitter
struggles may be anticipated
in the future, and I do not
want to go into details right
now."
"But we must remember
this: Heaven forbid that we
acquiesce in any diminution
of Jerusalem's entirety and
status. Such a blow may be
fatal for the entire country.
"Jerusalem," he added,
"will be the eternal capital
of Greater Israel, and the en-
tire Jewish nation will dwell
in it in peace and security."
It is not a message that
will particularly please the
Bush administration, which
has already made it plain
that Israel must be prepared
to make territorial conces-
sions and to abandon its
dream of a "Greater Israel."
Nor will it please many
Jewish Israelis, who would
not quarrel with Shamir's
determination to maintain a
united Jerusalem as Israel's
capital but would fiercely
dispute his demand for a
"Greater Israel."
In an inherently volatile
region, with passions moun-
ting not only among the
Jews but also among the
Arabs of "Greater Israel,"
no one is predicting with any
degree of confidence what
the New Year might have in
store for the Jewish State.
Given the entente between
the superpowers and their
determination to resolve
regional conflicts, coupled
with the apparent eagerness
of key Arab political leaders
to contribute toward a solu-
tion of the festering Palesti-
nian conflict, Israel could
find itself at a historic
crossroad in the next 12
months.
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