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David Hughes (res.)
It has been fifty years since Israel won the Six-Day war. Fifty years since Israel looked towards its borders and believed that its destruction was imminent. It has been fifty years since Jerusalem came under full Israeli control and was proclaimed the Jewish state’s eternal capital. And now, it has been fifty years since the West Bank and the Gaza Strip became subject to Israeli occupation. Celebrations and ceremonies marking Jerusalem’s reunification began inside the walls of the Old City on 21 May 2017. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, ‘we did not conquer Jerusalem, we liberated it’.1 At a later event, held in the Knesset to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day war, the...
