Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presided over the official “Jerusalem Day” celebration at the capital’s Ammunition Hill memorial on Sunday evening, commemorating the reunification of Israel’s capital city during the 1967 Six Days War. “We need to tell the truth, without fear,” Netanyahu said. “This is where we began our path as a nation, this is our home and this is where we will stay. Only under Israeli rule will there be freedom of worship for all religions in Jerusalem. Believers pray at their holy sites not in spite of our rule in the city, but precisely because of it. We will forever preserve an undivided Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty…Who opposes our presence in Jerusalem? Those who refuse to recognize our right to exist as a sovereign nation in our own state. They see us as a foreign object that needs to be uprooted.” Read More
