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Episode: “A Place for the King”

Zola reviews Jerusalem’s history from the beautiful YMCA building. We hear from a city official and the mayor about the modern city of Jerusalem and its issues.

Series: “This Is Israel”

Tired of waiting 20 years for CNN and the other networks to show Israel as the modern, beautiful country it really is, Zola and his crew decided to do it themselves. Viewers will be as surprised as our pilgrims to see that this much-criticized nation is at least the equal of our own and in some ways superior!

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Caption transcript for This Is Israel: “A Place for the King” (12/12)

00:02 HI, I'M ZOLA LEVITT.
00:04 ON TODAY'S PROGRAM, >> WE'RE GOING TO JERUSALEM
00:06 AND TALK WITH THE MAYOR OF THAT BUSY CITY, EHUD OLMERT.
00:10 THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT JERUSALEM WHICH DOES NOT EXIST
00:14 IN ANY OTHER PLACE IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
00:17 [ music playing ]
00:56 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
00:58 WELL, THIS IS THE LAST PROGRAM OF OUR "THIS IS ISRAEL SERIES."
01:01 I HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED IT.
01:03 WE ARE GOING TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER ON THIS PROGRAM,
01:05 JERUSALEM.
01:07 3000 YEARS AGO, KING DAVID >>MADE IT THE CAPITOL OF ISRAEL.
01:10 IT WAS THE JEWISH CAPITOL.
01:12 NO OTHER PEOPLE HAS EVER CLAIMED IT AS ITS CAPITOL,
01:14 CERTAINLY NOT THE MUSLIMS, OCCUPYING CRUSADERS,
01:17 MARMALUKES FROM EGYPT, ET CETERA.
01:20 TURKS WHO MARCHED THROUGH THERE.
01:22 NO ONE EVER CALLED IT THEIR CAPITOL.
01:24 IT IS THE JEWISH CAPITOL AND THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO THAT.
01:26 ON THE MAP, OF COURSE,
01:28 IT'S IN THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY RIGHT HERE.
01:30 THE WEST BANK, SO CALLED, WAS CUT IN THIS WAY SO THE JEWS
01:34 ON THEIR SIDE HAVE ACCESS TO JERUSALEM.
01:37 IMAGINE DOLING OUT TO PEOPLE ACCESS TO THEIR OWN CAPITOL.
01:41 THIS NAME WEST BANK WAS PERFECTED BY THE LATE KING
01:43 OF JORDAN IN ORDER TO MAKE IT SEEM SMALL.
01:46 IT'S AS YOU CAN SEE HALF >> OF THE ARAB LAND OF ISRAEL.
01:50 HE DID FOOL AT LEAST MTV WHEN THEY HAD ARAFAT
01:53 ON THEIR PROGRAM IN THE INTRO, THEY SAID THE WEST BANK
01:56 AND THEY SHOWED A PICTURE OF THE RIVER BANK, ABOUT 50 YARDS.
01:59 THAT'S MORE THAN THAT.
02:03 YOU KNOW, JESUS CHRIST WILL RETURN TO THIS CITY AND >> WILL REIGN HERE.
02:07 ALL CHRISTIANS WILL RESIDE HERE, INCLUDING YOU.
02:09 IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER, YOU WILL RESIDE IN JERUSALEM
02:12 FOR A 1000 YEARS UNLESS YOU ARE IN THE FOREIGN SERVICE IN THE >> KINGDOM TO COME.
02:18 JERUSALEM IS TRULY A PLACE FOR A KING AND A PLACE FOR A QUEEN.
02:21 YOU KNOW, WE WHO ARE THE BRIDE OF CHRIST WILL BE
02:23 THE QUEEN OF THE KINGDOM TO COME.
02:25 THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEVER THINK ABOUT, BUT YOU KNOW,
02:28 REVELATION 19:8 SAYS:
02:29 "BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES TO THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB AND
02:34 "THE WIFE OF CHRIST HATH MADE HERSELF READY."
02:37 AND NOW TO JERUSALEM.
02:48 WELL, IN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM ARE TWO BUILDINGS,
02:50 EACH UNIQUE WITH >> DIFFERENT PURPOSES
02:53 THAT ARE MOST BEAUTIFUL.
02:55 BEHIND ME THE MAGNIFICENT YMCA,
02:58 CERTAINLY THE FINEST YMCA IN THE WORLD.
03:01 AND ACROSS THE STREET, THE KING DAVID HOTEL,
03:04 ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT HOTELS.
03:07 THE YMCA WAS STARTED HERE IN THE 19th CENTURY
03:10 BY THE VERY BRITISH MEN WHO INVENTED THE IDEA
03:13 OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
03:17 AND IN JERUSALEM, IT WAS MORE THAN A CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION,
03:21 IT'S A PLACE OF PEACE FOR ALL RELIGIONS IS THE IDEA.
03:25 AND THE BUILDING >>ARCHITECTURE SAYS THAT.
03:27 THERE ARE 12 CYPRESS TREES >> IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING
03:30 AND THEY REPRESENT >> THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL,
03:32 THE 12 DISCIPLES OF JESUS, AND THE 12 FOLLOWERS OF MOHAMMED.
03:38 WELL, OBVIOUSLY ON >> A BUSY STREET --
03:39 JERUSALEM GOES ON AND ON AROUND US --
03:42 AND YOU WILL HEAR TRAFFIC AND SO FORTH.
03:45 BETWEEN THESE TWO BUILDINGS IS A VERY BUSY THOROUGHFARE.
03:51 AND THERE ARE 40 PILLARS >> EXACTLY IN THE FACADE
03:53 OF THE BUILDING AND THEY >> REPRESENT CHRIST'S 40 DAYS
03:59 OF TEMPTATION AND THE 40 >>YEARS WANDERING IN THE DESERT.
04:01 EITHER END OF THE BUILDING IS LIKE A MOSQUE ON EITHER SIDE
04:05 REPRESENTING THE MUSLIM PREFERENCES
04:08 AND THE CENTRAL TOWER IS RATHER LIKE THE PILLARS
04:11 OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
04:13 AND HAVE THE TWO WINDOWS >> IN IT THAT LOOK THAT WAY.
04:15 AND CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM >> AND JEWISH SYMBOLS THROUGHOUT
04:18 THE BUILDING AND THE PLACE IS DEDICATED TO EVERYBODY PUTTING
04:22 THEIR DIFFERENCES ASIDE, >>COMING TOGETHER, PLAYING SPORTS,
04:26 FELLOWSHIPPING TOGETHER AND THEY DO THAT.
04:29 THERE'S TENNIS HERE AND HAND BALL,
04:31 GYM EQUIPMENT LIKE ANY YMCA.
04:33 THERE'S ROOMS FOR THE NIGHT AND THERE'S A COUPLE
04:36 OF NICE RESTAURANTS AND THERE'S EVEN A MESSIANIC
04:39 CONGREGATION THAT MEETS HERE ON THE OUTER PORCH ON SUNDAYS.
04:43 OUR TOUR GROUP HAS ATTENDED SERVICES WITH THAT CONGREGATION.
04:47 AND THE PLACE GOES ON IN ONE OF THE BUSIEST AND SOME SAY MOST
04:53 CONTENTIOUS PLACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, ALWAYS A SCENE OF PEACE.
05:01 [ music playing ]
05:23 WELL, WE ARE AT THE LITTLE CAFE WHERE LUNCH IS SERVED.
05:26 THE PORCH OF THE YMCA AND THE HEART OF JERUSALEM --
05:31 WHICH YOU KNOW, WAS A JEWISH CITY TO BEGIN WITH 1000 YEARS
05:35 BEFORE CHRIST WHEN KING DAVID CAPTURED THE CITY
05:38 FROM THE GEBUSITES, >> THAT WAS IN II SAMUEL 5, >>TELLS FROM VERSE 6-10,
05:43 AND THEN LATER, >> OF COURSE, MUSLIMS CAME,
05:47 CHRISTIANS CAME, >> AND SO FORTH,
05:49 AND THE CITY BECAME THE HEART OF THREE RELIGIONS.
05:54 THERE ARE THREE SECTIONS >> IN THIS BUILDING THAT EXPRESS
05:57 THE MUSLIM/CHRISTIAN/JEWISH SECTORS OF THE CITY.
06:03 THERE'S THREE SECTIONS OF THE CITY.
06:04 THE OLD CITY, THE ORIGINAL, THE NEW CITY BASICALLY WHICH JEWISH
06:09 PEOPLE HAVE BUILT SINCE 1948 AND EAST JERUSALEM WHICH HAS BEEN
06:14 GENERALLY OCCUPIED BY ARAB PEOPLE FOR A LONG TIME.
06:16 AND SO THERE ARE THREE RELIGIONS LIVE TOGETHER MORE OR LESS.
06:22 OF COURSE, IT IS ALWAYS UNDER DISCUSSION.
06:25 90 PERCENT OF THE TOURIST WHO VISIT ISRAEL CERTAINLY VISIT
06:28 JERUSALEM AND OF THOSE, 70 PERCENT ARE NOT JEWISH.
06:33 THEY ARE CHRISTIAN TOURIST OR THE TOURIST FROM THE ORIENT
06:36 OR EUROPE OR WHATEVER, NOT JEWISH PEOPLE.
06:39 I SHOULD SAY WHEN I DISCUSS THE THREE SECTIONS OF JERUSALEM,
06:43 THAT THE NEW CITY, THE ONE BUILT SINCE 1948 BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE
06:46 IS 20 TIMES BIGGER THAN THE OLD CITY.
06:51 IT REALLY IS JERUSALEM.
06:53 EAST JERUSALEM IS QUITE SMALL, TOO.
06:55 IT WOULD BE LIKE COMPARING >> MANHATTAN WITH THE OTHER >>BURROUGHS OF NEW YORK.
07:00 IT'S REALLY THE MAIN PART OF THE PLACE.
07:03 BUT AS WE SAY, JESUS WALKED THROUGHOUT
07:05 CITY STREETS IN THE OLD CITY.
07:07 IT WAS ALWAYS A PLACE OF >>RELIGION, A PLACE OF POLITICS,
07:11 THEN AND NOW, EVEN GOING BACK TO DAVID'S TIME
07:14 THIS WAS A CENTER OF DISCUSSION OF ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED
07:18 IN THE AREA, OF COURSE, ISRAEL ITSELF IS A CROSSROADS OF THE MIDDLE EAST.
07:25 AND THIS IS ALWAYS GOING TO HAPPEN HERE.
07:27 JERUSALEM, OF COURSE, >> IS THE CAPITOL NOW >>OFFICIALLY OF ISRAEL.
07:33 AND IT WAS RECAPTURED BY THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE '67 WAR,
07:37 IN THE SIX-DAY WAR AND IN 1980, OFFICIALLY MADE THE CAPITOL
07:41 AGAIN AS IT WAS IN THE TIME OF KING DAVID 3000 YEARS BEFORE.
07:46 AFTER ALL, THE KNESSET IS HERE.
07:49 THE CONGRESS, THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COUNTRY IS IN JERUSALEM, >> NOT IN TEL AVIV.
07:52 WE -- AMERICA ARE AMONG THOSE NATIONS WHICH PREFER TEL AVIV
07:56 SO AS NOT TO UPSET THE ARAB PEOPLE.
07:59 BUT THE KNESSET IS IN JERUSALEM.
08:02 IT'S SO FUNNY, OUR EMBASSY IS IN TEL AVIV AND THEY ALWAYS HAVE TO
08:05 DRIVE THE 45 MILES OR SO >> TO VISIT THE KNESSET
08:08 AND BACK AND FORTH BECAUSE WE STUBBORNLY REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS CAPITOL.
08:13 YOU KNOW WHEN WIESMAN SPOKE TO DAVID BELFOUR ORIGINALLY,
08:18 THE ENGLISH WERE TRYING TO IMPRESS THE JEWS TO GO TO
08:22 SOME OTHER COUNTRY TO ESTABLISH THEIR HOMELAND.
08:25 UGANDA WAS SUGGESTED >> OF ALL PLACES IN AFRICA.
08:29 AND FINALLY WEISMAN WHO WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL SAID
08:34 TO DAVID BELFOUR, OF THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT,
08:37 "JERUSALEM WAS OUR CAPITOL WHEN LONDON WAS A MARSH."
08:40 THAT IS QUITE TRUE.
08:42 IN FACT, JERUSALEM WAS THE JEWISH CAPITOL WHEN
08:45 ROME AND GREECE WERE NOT EVEN THOUGHT OF YET IN THE TIME OF KING DAVID.
08:49 THERE WERE NO >> OTHER EUROPEAN CAPITOLS,
08:52 NONE AT THE TIME THAT JERUSALEM WAS THE JEWISH CAPITOL.
08:55 WELL, THE DEBATE OVER THE CAPITOL RAGES ON >> AND SCRIPTURE COVERS IT.
09:26 WE'RE SEEMING TO COME TO THAT TIME RATHER RAPIDLY.
09:29 THIS IS JUST THE >> NATURE OF THIS PLACE.
09:32 IN I KINGS 3, WE HEAR THE ORIGINAL COMMENDATION OF GOD
09:40 ON THIS CITY WHERE GOD IS TALKING TO KING SOLOMON
09:44 WHO HAS BUILT THE TEMPLE.
10:01 IT'S PRETTY STRONG.
10:02 GOD CHOSE THIS PLACE AS HIS CAPITOL ALSO.
10:05 AND JERUSALEM NOW IS IN A SENSE PREPARING TO RECEIVE HER KING.
10:10 THE END TIMES ARE HERE.
10:12 MANY TEACHERS SAY SO AND I >> CERTAINLY AGREE WITH IT.
10:15 AND ZECHARIAH 8 SAYS:
10:18 THUS SAITH THE LORD, "I AM RETURNED UNTO ZION."
10:21 ALMOST AS IF HE IS TALKING --
10:24 I HAVE ESTABLISHED MYSELF HERE BACK IN DAVID'S TIME
10:27 AND NOW, I'VE COME BACK ALONG WITH MY PEOPLE.
10:53 OLD PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE, THE WHOLE SOCIETY WILL BE
10:56 PEACEFUL AND RECEPTIVE OF THE LORD WHEN THE KING RETURNS.
11:00 THIS REALLY IS A >> PLACE FOR THE KING.
11:03 IT'S NOT LIKE THE HIGH PLACES, ESTABLISHED BY THE PAGANS
11:06 ALL THROUGH THE AGES, BUT RATHER,
11:10 IN THE MIDST OF THE CITY, THE TEMPLE OF THE KING WILL STAND.
11:13 AND PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD WILL COME TO THIS CITY.
11:16 ZECHARIAH 14:16 IS HEARTENING.
11:31 THE FEAST OF TABERNACLE >> IS A STUNNING, WONDERFUL
11:33 FESTIVAL OF THANKSGIVING, ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT TO AMERICAN
11:37 THANKSGIVING AND ALSO HAPPENS IN THE FALL, USUALLY IN OCTOBER.
11:41 AND THAT WILL BE A FESTIVAL THAT WE WILL ALL ATTEND IN THE KINGDOM TO COME.
11:46 WHEREVER WE'RE LIVING, IF WE'RE MARRIED TO THE KING,
11:49 PRESUMABLY WE ARE LIVING HERE.
11:51 BUT IF YOU ARE LIVING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY,
11:52 YOU'LL COME HERE AT LEAST ONCE EACH YEAR AND CELEBRATE
11:55 THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.
11:58 YOU KNOW, AN 18th CENTURY POLISH RABBI'S DAUGHTER WROTE THIS ON HER WEDDING INVITATION.
12:11 THIS IS WAY BEFORE THE JEWS WERE IN JERUSALEM.
12:14 THEN SHE WRITES:
12:24 SHE WAS SO TRUSTING OF THE LORD, THAT SHE WROTE IT JUST THAT WAY.
12:38 [ music playing ]
12:46 COME WITH ZOLA LEVITT AND SEE FOR YOURSELF
12:48 THE LAND OF THE COVENANT.
12:51 ZOLA PUTS ON ONE OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR TRIPS YOU COULD EVER BE ON.
12:55 THE WHOLE GROUP, EVERYBODY JUST PUTS EVERYTHING TOGETHER.
12:57 IT'S SPECTACULAR.
13:00 WITH WHAT WAS CHOSEN FOR US TO DO AS WELL AS WHO GUIDED US
13:04 AND WHO SPOKE WITH US, THE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE TRIP.
13:09 IT WAS WONDERFUL.
13:10 OTHER PEOPLE SAID THEY WENT ON CRUISES AND TRIPS LIKE THIS
13:13 AND IT WAS ALL HISTORICAL AND THEY SAW A LOT OF SITES
13:15 BUT THIS WAS SPIRITUAL AND THIS WAS REALLY GOOD.
13:18 SO I'M REALLY GLAD I PICKED ZOLA LEVITT'S GROUP
13:22 TO TOUR THE HOLY LAND.
13:27 TOUR THE HOLY LAND WITH ZOLA LEVITT.
13:29 CALL OR WRITE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
13:39 WELL, SEE ISRAEL FOR YOURSELF.
13:40 THAT'S THE THING TO DO.
13:42 DON'T DEPEND ON US TO SHOW IT TO YOU.
13:44 I'M GLAD YOU'RE WATCHING, BUT I THINK YOU OUGHT
13:46 TO TAKE A TOUR IN THIS LIFE.
13:48 WITH US OR SOMEONE ELSE, >> THAT'S FINE.
13:51 WELL, JERUSALEM IS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE OVER AND OVER
13:54 A THOUSAND TIMES, I DON'T KNOW.
13:55 YOU KNOW THAT IT'S NOT MENTIONED IN THE KORAN AT ALL.
13:59 THE HOLY BOOK OF THE MUSLIMS.
14:00 JERUSALEM IS NOT >> HOLY TO THE MUSLIMS.
14:03 JERUSALEM IS NOT >> HOLY TO THE MUSLIMS.
14:06 IT'S A POLITICAL IDEA.
14:07 PEOPLE OF THE MENTALITY OF THE ARAFAT
14:11 AND THE KING OF SAUDI ARABIA AND PEOPLE OF THAT NATURE DECIDED IT >> WILL BE.
14:16 BUT IT ISN'T MENTIONED IN THE KORAN.
14:18 THE BEST ARGUMENT THEY HAVE IS THAT MOHAMMED DREAMED THAT HE
14:22 RODE HIS HORSE FROM A FAR MOSQUE OR SANCTUARY TO HEAVEN AND THEY
14:28 DECIDED TO SAY WELL, THAT WILL BE JERUSALEM.
14:30 THEY PICKED IT OUT.
14:31 THEY COULD HAVE PICKED NEW YORK CITY OR WASHINGTON.
14:33 I'LL ARGUE THAT POINT WITH ANY MUSLIM FROM THE KORAN,
14:36 THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM.
14:38 YOU KNOW PEOPLE GET >> THIS PLACED SO MIXED UP.
14:40 A RECENT COLUMN SAID >> IN THE WASHINGTON TIMES,
14:44 "JERUSALEM IS A PLACE OF MOSES,
14:46 "MOHAMMED AND JESUS ALL WALKED THERE."
14:49 NO, SIR, ONLY JESUS OF THOSE THREE WALKED THERE.
14:52 MOHAMMED NEVER VISITED IT MOSES DIDN'T EITHER.
14:55 JERUSALEM IS PRECIOUS TO JEWS AND CHRISTIANS.
14:58 IT IS NOT PRECIOUS TO MUSLIMS BUT THEY PRETENDED IT IS.
15:01 THE JEWS AND THE CHRISTIANS HAVE A REAL STAKE IN THIS.
15:05 I TALKED TO THE BUSIEST MAYOR IN THE WORLD, EHUD OLMERT,
15:09 THE MAYOR OF JERUSALEM.
15:11 MAYOR OLMERT, IN AMERICA >>AND THE WESTERN WORLD,
15:15 THE NEWS ABOUT JERUSALEM >> TENDS TO BE VERY NEGATIVE,
15:18 DUSTY STREETS, PEOPLE PUSHING EACH OTHER,
15:21 WORSE THAN THAT AND YET WHEN WE COME HERE,
15:24 IT LOOKS LIKE A PEACEFUL, VERY BEAUTIFUL CITY.
15:27 IT CERTAINLY IS A VERY BEAUTIFUL CITY AND PEACEFUL CITY.
15:30 YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE.
15:32 THE PROBLEM OF JERUSALEM >>IS BECAUSE OF ITS VERY UNIQUE STATUS.
15:39 ENORMOUS SIGNIFICANCE FOR WORLD HISTORY,
15:43 FOR SO MANY DIFFERENT BELIEVERS,
15:44 SO MANY DIFFERENT RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD.
15:46 THERE IS ENORMOUS SENSITIVITY ABOUT JERUSALEM
15:49 WHICH IS DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER CITY
15:54 IN THE WORLD, THEREFORE, >>ANY KIND OF EVENT WHICH WOULD BE
15:59 HARDLY MENTIONED OR EVEN NOTICED IN BIGGER CITIES IN DIFFERENT
16:07 PARTS OF THE WORLD, IMMEDIATELY BECOMES A GLOBAL
16:11 EVENT WHERE IT IS -- WHEN IT TAKES PLACE IN JERUSALEM.
16:16 EVERYTHING THAT TAKES PLACE HERE IS IMMEDIATELY A GLOBAL EVENT.
16:21 SO THINGS TEND TO BLOW OUT OF THEIR REAL PROPORTIONS.
16:26 BUT THERE ARE MORE VIOLENT EVENTS IN AMERICA OR IN EUROPE.
16:35 THERE ARE MORE INSECURITIES, IN TERMS OF PERSONAL SAFETY
16:39 AND SECURITY FOR INDIVIDUALS IN MOST MAJOR CITIES
16:42 IN THE WORLD THAN THERE ARE IN JERUSALEM.
16:45 JERUSALEM IS CLEANER, IS NICER, IS CERTAINLY MORE BEAUTIFUL.
16:50 AND MORE INSPIRING THAN ANY OTHER CITY.
16:57 OKAY, YOU GO TO NEW YORK >> AND I LOVE NEW YORK
16:59 AND YOU WILL SEE THESE HIGH RISES AND BIG TOWERS, OKAY,
17:03 AFTER YOU HAVE SEEN FIVE, YOU GET THE IDEA.
17:06 THERE IS 5000.
17:10 YOU GO TO MIAMI AND GO TO TEL AVIV AND YOU ASK YOURSELF
17:13 WHICH IS MIAMI AND WHICH IS TEL AVIV?
17:16 IT IS YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE CITIES,
17:20 THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT >>JERUSALEM WHICH DOES NOT EXIST
17:24 IN ANY OTHER PLACE IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
17:28 WHEN YOU THINK THAT JUST >> ACROSS FROM WHERE WE SIT NOW, 500 METERS.
17:34 IN ONE SQUARE KILOMETER, >>WE HAVE MORE HOLY SITES
17:39 THAT ARE IMPORTANT AND SIGNIFICANT FOR MORE BELIEVERS,
17:45 OF MORE RELIGIONS ACROSS THE WORLD THAN ANY OTHER PLACE IN >> THE WHOLE WORLD.
17:53 WHEN YOU THINK OF ALL OF >> THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL EVENTS
17:58 OF OUR CIVILIZATIONS, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN THIS SMALL PLACE,
18:03 WHEN YOU KNOW THAT WHEN YOU COME THERE,
18:07 YOU CAN LOOK AT PLACES OF WHICH YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
18:12 NOW THIS IS NOT FICTION.
18:14 THIS IS NOT FAIRY TALE.
18:16 THIS IS REALITY.
18:18 YOU WALK THROUGH THE HILLS WHERE KING DAVID WALKED.
18:23 THIS IS NOT A STORY.
18:25 WE HAVE THE REMAINS OF THE HOUSE OF KING DAVID
18:27 JUST OUTSIDE OF THE WALL IN JERUSALEM.
18:31 YOU LOOK AT ABSALOM -- WHICH YOU READ ABOUT
18:35 IN THE BIBLE THAT KING DAVID BUILT FOR HIS SON AFTER HIS SON
18:40 TRIED TO ASSASSINATE HIM >> AND HE EULOGIZED HIM IN ONE
18:44 OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PIECES OF POETRY THAT WAS EVER WRITTEN
18:47 BY ANY HUMAN BEING IN HISTORY.
18:50 ALL OF THAT IS HERE.
18:53 IT CANNOT COMPARE TO ANYTHING.
18:55 SO, IT IS TRUE THAT JERUSALEM IS FILLED
18:58 WITH ALL KINDS OF DIFFICULTIES AND PROBLEMS AND CONTRADICTIONS
19:01 WHICH IS PART OF >> THE FASCINATION OF THIS CITY.
19:05 BUT HOW CAN IT BE ANY OTHER PLACE?
19:08 PART OF THE YOUR JOB IS KEEPING ALLIANCE ACROSS TOWN.
19:11 WE WENT TO THE ORIENT HOUSE
19:13 AND WE'VE INTERVIEWED FAISAL HUSSEINI,
19:16 WHO IS CLAIMING TO BE A PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY
19:20 REPRESENTATIVE FOR JERUSALEM
19:22 AND FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES,
19:25 PUTS HIMSELF OUT >>AS THE MAYOR OF EAST JERUSALEM.
19:28 THAT MUST BE A THORN IN YOUR SIDE.
19:31 WHAT GOES ON WITH THE OTHER SIDE?
19:33 THIS IS A VIRTUAL STAGES.
19:36 REALLY IT IS NOT OF ANY PRACTICAL SIGNIFICANCE.
19:42 FAISAL HUSSEINI, HAS NO AUTHORITY TO TAKE ANY DECISION
19:44 REGARDING THE LIFE OF PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM OR THEIR WHEREABOUTS
19:48 OR THEIR WELL BEING.
19:50 HE CAN'T BUILD ONE SCHOOL.
19:53 HE CAN'T OPEN ONE SCHOOL.
19:54 HE CAN'T GIVE ONE PERMIT.
19:57 HE CAN'T GIVE ONE LICENSE.
19:58 HE CAN'T IMPOSE A CERTAIN RESTRICTION.
20:01 IT IS MORE LIKE A POLITICAL RHETORIC.
20:04 AS FAR AS POLITICAL RHETORIC IS CONCERNED, HE'S AN EXPERT.
20:08 THAT'S MORE OR LESS WHAT IT IS.
20:09 ONE THING I CAN DO IS TRY TO ENGAGE MYSELF
20:15 IN ALMOST ENDLESS BATTLES,
20:20 VERBAL BATTLES WITH FAISAL HUSSEINI OF WHAT IS THE REAL STAGE.
20:26 I FIND IT TOTALLY UNNECESSARY BECAUSE I AM NOT INTERESTED ON WASTING MY ENERGIES ON RHETORIC.
20:32 EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE ONLY PERSON WHO HOLDS THE REAL POWER
20:37 IN TERMS OF RUNNING THE CITY,
20:39 IN TERMS OF MAKING THE DISCUSSION AND EFFECTING
20:41 THE QUALITY OF PEOPLE >> REGARDLESS WHERE THEY ARE.
20:45 BUT AS LONG AS THEY ARE IN >>JERUSALEM, IS THE MAYOR MYSELF,
20:48 NOT FAISAL HUSSEINI.
20:50 WE ENTERED INTO DAVID BAR-ILLAN,
20:52 WHO POINTED OUT THAT DURING THE COLD WAR,
20:55 THE RUSSIANS TENDED TO COME TO AMERICA AND TELEVISE
20:58 AND IT WAS NOT THAT THEY TOLD LIES BUT WHAT THEY
21:00 PUT ON TELEVISION WAS PEOPLE STANDING IN LINES FOR FOOD
21:05 AND NEGATIVE THINGS AND BY SHOWING NOTHING BUT NEGATIVE
21:09 THINGS GAVE THE PLACE A BAD NAME.
21:12 GAVE AMERICA A BAD NAME IN RUSSIA.
21:14 EXACTLY RIGHT.
21:15 THE RUSSIANS S SAW NOTHING BUT THESE PICTURES
21:17 AND I'M BEGINNING TO THINK THE SAME THING HAPPENS TO JERUSALEM.
21:19 RUSSIANS WAITING IN THE LINES IN RUSSIA TO BUY BREAD IN A
21:26 STORE WERE SHOWN PICTURES OF AMERICANS DOING THE SAME.
21:30 AND THEY BELIEVE IT THEMSELVES AND THEY KNEW THE REALITIES
21:34 AND I THINK THIS IS TRUE ABOUT THE PERCEPTION
21:37 REGARDING JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM IS A CITY OF GREAT FASCINATION
21:44 AND ALSO I THINK A CITY WHERE TOLERANCE IS REALLY
21:49 A MAJOR INGREDIENT IN THE LIGHT.
21:53 THERE ARE VERY GOOD RELATIONS AMONGST OF THE POPULATIONS IN JERUSALEM.
21:59 BUT THERE IS A DESIRE, BY LOTS OF POLITICAL FACTIONS
22:06 TO PORTRAY JERUSALEM IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
22:12 THIS IS NOT TRUE.
22:14 AND TO LOOK TO THE PAST, >> MAYOR, TEDDY KOLLECK WHOM WE
22:17 ALSO INTRUDE WAS >>IN OFFICE FOR 20 YEARS.
22:21 OVER 20.
22:23 DO YOU ANTICIPATE BEING PRIME MINISTER SOME DAY,
22:29 YOU WILL STAY IN >>LEADERSHIP POSITION?
22:31 NOT THAT LONG AS MAYOR.
22:33 I THINK IT IS WRONG >> TO BE MAYOR SO MANY YEARS
22:37 AND THIS IS MY OBSERVATION >>ALSO ABOUT THE LAST FEW TERMS
22:42 OF TEDDY KOLLECK WHO HAD TERMS TOO MUCH.
22:46 AND ALTHOUGH HE WAS A GREAT MAYOR.
22:47 BUT I THINK YOU CAN'T HOLD, YOU CAN'T KEEP THE SAME KIND
22:53 OF EFFICIENCY AND THE >> SAME KIND OF ENTHUSIASM
22:58 ABOUT WHAT >> YOU DO IN SUCH A LONG TIME.
23:02 THERE'S ALWAYS A DANGER OF >>FALLING IN A CERTAIN ROUTINE.
23:06 WHICH BY THE WAY, >> IS NOT BAD WHEN YOU RUN MIAMI OR DETROIT OR ST.
23:13 LOUIS OR TEL AVIV OR HYFFA, BUT NOT WHEN YOU RUN JERUSALEM.
23:22 THAT'S SPECIAL.
23:23 YOU MUST OBTAIN WITHIN YOURSELF THE ENTHUSIASM AND EXCITEMENT.
23:28 AND BECAUSE WITHOUT IT, WHAT IS LEFT FOR YOU TO DO
23:34 IN A CITY LIKE JERUSALEM?
23:37 AND YOU CAN'T DO IT 25 YEARS YOU KNOW.
23:40 IT CAN BE DONE 10 YEARS 14 YEARS,
23:43 I THINK THAT'S ENOUGH.
23:47 [ music playing ]
25:09 WELL, AT THIS LAST PROGRAM OF OUR SERIES, "THIS IS ISRAEL,"
25:13 I HOPE WE ACCOMPLISHED WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO.
25:16 WHAT THE NETWORKS, ET CETERA,
25:18 JUST WILL NOT DO AND THAT IS SHOW YOU ISRAEL AS IT REALLY IS.
25:22 THEY SHOW YOU ISRAEL AS A WAR-TORN PLACE
25:25 AND DUSTY VILLAGES AND COPS AND KIDS AND SO FORTH.
25:27 THAT'S JUST SILLY, THAT'S HARDLY ENCOURAGED AT ALL.
25:30 WE HAVE SHOWN YOU WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON THERE.
25:34 THE MEDIA IS IN BUSINESS TO REPORT PROBLEMS ALL THE WAY FROM
25:37 YOUR LOCAL TV NEWS IN YOUR HOME
25:39 TOWN PAPER TO THE GIANT NETWORKS,
25:42 THAT'S ALL THEY DO, IS CYNICISM AND NEGATIVISM
25:44 AND IN SOME CASES IT IS BAD.
25:48 AS I SAID BEFORE, IF ISRAEL WAS A PERSON THEY WOULD HAVE SUED
25:51 FOR LIBEL AND WON THE CASE.
25:54 IT IS TERRIBLE THE WAY THEY DESCRIBE IT.
25:56 WE BELIEVERS MUST SUPPORT ISRAEL.
25:59 WE MUST SUPPORT THE HOME OF THE KINGDOM TO COME.
26:01 FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE IT CAN START TONIGHT.
26:04 WE WILL HAVE TO GIVE IT SOME SUPPORT IF WE ARE GOING TO LIVE
26:06 THERE A THOUSAND YEARS.
26:07 IF I AM READING THE BIBLE CORRECTLY
26:10 THAT'S WHERE WE ARE GOING.
26:11 THEY ASKED JESUS.
26:12 WILT THOU AT THIS TIME RESTORE THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN UNTO ISRAEL?
26:15 WELL, WE'RE GOING THERE.
26:17 AND WE ARE GOING TO LIVE THERE AND BE THE QUEEN OF THE KING TO COME.
26:20 AND WE MUST BE AT LEAST INTERESTED IN IT
26:22 AND SUPPORT THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
26:24 CAN'T WE AT LEAST LOVE WHO GOD LOVES?
26:27 HE PICKED THEM OUT.
26:28 OKAY, YOU MAY THINK HE HAS BAD TASTE.
26:29 THAT'S UP TO YOU.
26:31 BUT CAN YOU DO WHAT GOD DOES AND LOVE THEM A LITTLE BIT
26:34 AT LEAST STOP CRITICIZING OR GET AFTER THOSE WHO DO.
26:38 JESUS CHRIST IS GOING TO RETURN TO THE LAND HE LEFT.
26:42 JESUS CHRIST NEVER LEFT ISRAEL OTHER THAN WHEN HE WAS A BABY
26:45 WHEN HIS PARENTS >> TOOK HIM TO EGYPT.
26:46 BUT HE WITNESSED >>IN ISRAEL TO JEWS ONLY.
26:50 AND WE OUGHT TO DO WHAT HE DOES.
26:54 DO YOU WITNESS TO JEWS?
26:55 IF NOT, GIVE US SUPPORT,
26:58 WE'LL GET THEM FOR YOU.
26:59 WE GO OUT THERE,
26:59 WE GO ALL OF THE TIME.
27:01 YOU KNOW, PAUL SAYS YOU HAVE
27:02 CREDIT IF YOU SUPPORT A MINISTRY
27:04 WITH WHAT THAT MINISTRY >> ACCOMPLISHES.
27:07 AND SO HE'S COMING BACK TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
27:09 ARE YOU READY TO GO WITH HIM? IF YOU ARE SAVED,
27:12 IF YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST,
27:14 YOU WILL GO TO JERUSALEM FOR THAT THOUSAND YEARS WITH HIM
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Episode 12 of 12 in series

Production Code: 712

Type: Episode

Play Time: 28:32

Year: 2000

Series code: VTI

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Host: Zola Levitt

Air dates: 2000-Jul-09, 2005-May-29

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