'Aram Atmigre Rama', La Bira Amita

For centuries, under the ottoman empire, and then during this brief period of jordanian occupation, the temple mount and its environs in the old city had been under the control of a moslem government. So how do things change once the raeli government comes in in 19 67 with the idea of taking control of east jerusalem? In the three weeks before the war, israeli society girded itself for the possibility of a massacre, being annihilated. We expected tens of thousands of civilian casualties. Instead of that, we found ourselves face to face with sights which symbolized jewish exile. And what was a war of self defence morfed into a war