West Jerusalem refers to the section of Jerusalem captured by Israel following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
Read more about West Jerusalem: Division in 1948, Mayors of West Jerusalem
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“You in the West have a problem. You are unsure when you are being lied to, when you are being tricked. We do not suffer from this; and unlike you, we have acquired the skill of reading between the lines.”
—Zdenek Urbának (b. 1917)
“And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
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