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he European Union (which
includes 15 countries and
the Vatican) is boycotting
the year-long 3,000th an-
niversary
celebration
of
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,
which begins this week in
Jerusalem.
According to press reports, the
EU considers the celebration
"one-sided," giving "short shrift
to Christian and Muslim con-
nections."
On the face of it, this is hard to
understand. All kinds of impor-
tant historical anniversaries are
observed — from the end of
World War II, to the bombing of
Hiroshima, to the 2,000th an-
niversary of the birth of Jesus
planned for next February at the
University of Oregon. Why not
King David's establishment of
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
3,000 years ago?
The answer given is that the
celebration is a political event de-
signed to compromise the peace
negotiations over Jerusalem. But
the celebration was planned in
then-Mayor Teddy Kollek's office
long before Oslo was a twinkle in
anyone's eye. And the planned
events are almost all cultural,
without a whiff of politics. It is
the EU that is making it a polit-
ical event.
Isn't it appropriate — as David
did when he carried the ark of the
Lord into Jerusalem — to dance
and leap, and to play with lyres,
harps and cymbals to mark the
millennial anniversary of
Jerusalem's becoming the capi-
tal of ancient Israel, known there-
after as the city of David?
Yes, but, the detractors say,
Jerusalem was already a city for
2,500 years. Certainly. No one de-
nies this. It is part of the
Jerusalem story, although it is
not the occasion for the celebra-
tion.
The claim that Christian and
Muslim connections with the city
are being given short shrift is
ironic, to say the least. Modern
Israel is the only ruler of
Jerusalem to allow freedom of re-
ligious expression to others.
When the Babylonians conquered
it in 586 BCE, they destroyed the
Temple. After two generations,
the Jews came back and rebuilt
the Temple, but it was again de-
stroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.

Hershel Shanks, editor of
Moment magazine, is the
author of "Jerusalem: An
Archaeological Biography," to
be published next month by
Random House.

The Romans built a shrine to pa-
gan gods on the Temple Mount;
in the second century, they re-
built the city as their own, giving
it a new name, Aelia Capitolina,
to remove all Jewish associations.
From Aelia Capitolina, Jews
were banned.
When the Christians took over
in the fourth century, they delib-
erately kept the Temple Mount
in ruins as a sign of God's aban-
donment of the Jews. When the
Muslims conquered the country
in the seventh century, they built
their own religious structure on
the Temple Mount, the beautiful
Dome of the Rock. When the Cru-
saders captured the city, they
turned the Muslim structure into
a church, placing a cross on the
dome.
In modern times, when half
the city was controlled by Jordan
between 1948 and 1967, the Jew-
ish Quarter of the Old City was

The celebration was
planned in then-
Mayor Teddy Kollek's
office long before
Oslo was a twinkle in
anyone's eye.

systematically destroyed. Tomb-
stones from Jewish cemeteries
were used to line paths to toilets.
Given this history, it is some-
what extraordinary that when Is-
rael captured the Old City in
1967, Muslims were given sole
control of the Temple Mount. In
the exercise of this control, they
have ignored Israeli law, not least
by destroying archaeological re-
mains on the Temple Mount (so
held by Israel's Supreme Court).
Ironically, Israeli archaeologists
have uncovered the remains of
five Arab palaces adjacent to the
Temple Mount, documenting for
the first time a hitherto unknown
period of glorious Arab history in
Jerusalem. These Arab palaces
are now to be preserved and re-
stored at great expense.
And yet Jews are forbidden to
pray on the Temple Mount.
What a remarkable story. Yet
the world shakes its head in
righteous indignation as Jews ob-
serve the occasion when
Jerusalem first became the City
of David and the capital of
Israel. El