07-17-2010, 03:00 PM
For over 400 hundred years, 1,000 to 586 BCE, Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish kingdom of Judah & again during the 2nd temple. Jews remained in Jerusalem continuously from then till today only with foreign (not Palestinian) powers in control till '48. This is not a religious, but a historical fact that can be verified. Interestingly the Arabs that since 1964 identify as Palestinians came to Israel in 1900's in search of work as a result of economic activity created by ZIONISM!