My last post described how UPI reported on Israel's defeating Jordan in the battle for Jerusalem in 1967. But the joy felt by Jews and many others was not reflected in the international community.
Here's a news story from later that month, when Israel officially declared Jerusalem to be one city. The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, the Vatican and much of the UN scrambled to denounce the move.
For nineteen years, Jordan controlled the holy places. A Muslim nation had full control over Christian and Jewish holy sites. Jordan explicitly denied Jews from entering the city even though the armistice agreement specifically demanded open access to holy spots.
For those nineteen years, the international community was largely silent. The Vatican didn't condemn Jordan's annexation. The UN never called for the open access agreement to be enforced despite numerous complaints by Israel.
But when Jews took over control - and actually implemented free access to all holy spots by all (except for Jews to visit their own holiest site on the Temple Mount) - suddenly the world warned Israel that this was terrible, that a Jewish state could not possibly act responsibly when the Muslim state had already shown it had no interest in keeping Jerusalem open.
The hypocrisy was blatant, including from the State Department. And the hypocrisy persists today, every time anyone demands that Jerusalem goes back to the "status quo," by which they mean the anomalous 19 years when the world's Jews were banned from the city.
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