Rocket attacks and violent riots escalating in Jerusalem: The one pathway to true peace
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 11 May 2021
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Rocket attacks and violent riots are escalating in Jerusalem. In The Daily Article for May 11, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison explains the historic and cultural background behind the ongoing conflict, then he identifies the one path to true and lasting peace.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.7 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.6 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:18.1 | Hi, I'm Jim Dennis, with Denison Forum, and this is the daily article for Tuesday, May 11th, 2021. |
| 0:23.5 | The title is, rocket attacks and violent riots escalating in Jerusalem, the one pathway to true peace. |
| 0:31.4 | A struggle is now raging over the heart of Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu |
| 0:37.1 | made that statement yesterday. He was addressing riots in the old city of Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made that statement yesterday. |
| 0:39.0 | He was addressing riots in the old city of Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount as Israeli |
| 0:44.3 | celebrated Jerusalem Day while Palestinians threw rocks and launched firecrackers at Israeli police |
| 0:50.9 | officers. Jerusalem Day is an Israeli national holiday commemorating the |
| 0:55.7 | reunification of Jerusalem and establishment of Israeli control over the old city after the |
| 1:01.2 | Sixth Day War in 1967. Yesterday's violence was part of a week's long escalation. A month ago, |
| 1:08.2 | Israel blocked some Palestinian gatherings at the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, |
| 1:13.8 | then a plan to evict dozens of Palestinians from an East Jerusalem neighborhood engendered further conflicts. |
| 1:20.5 | The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza, has called for a new intifada or uprising in response. Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets |
| 1:31.4 | into Israel yesterday, one setting off air raid sirens as far away as Jerusalem. The Israeli |
| 1:38.3 | military responded with airstrikes. This, after hundreds of Palestinians Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli police |
| 1:46.0 | in the contested Holy City. I've led more than 30 study tours to Israel and I love the Holy Land |
| 1:52.7 | deeply. I have lifelong Jewish friends in Jerusalem and Palestinian friends in Bethlehem. |
| 1:58.7 | Out of my decades of travel to the region, I have a personal |
| 2:02.0 | insight I'd like to share with you today. But first, let's consider a very brief overview of the |
| 2:07.7 | region from two very different perspectives. The Jewish people believe that the land we call Israel |
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