Whatever you think of Sarah Palin, she gets one thing very right indeed:
-- Note also: Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post offers a helpful survey of the Hamas-Fatah partnership and its implications for Israel. She also talks about Obama's speech to be given next week to the Muslim world, plus Netanyahu's visit to Washington also scheduled for next week. Her article is titled "Obama's newest ambush." - Highly recommended.
-- The late OFRA HAZA sings "Jerusalem the Golden." (HT: Pamela Geller)
From the introduction at YouTube: "Jerusalem of Gold" (Hebrew: ירושלים של זהב, Yerushalayim Shel Zahav) is an extraordinary Jewish song written by Naomi Shemer in 1967.
The original song described the Jewish people's 2000-year longing to return to Jerusalem; Shemer added a final verse after the Six-Day War to celebrate Jerusalem's unification under Israeli control. At that time, the Old City was under Jordanian rule; Jews had been barred from entering, and many holy sites had been desecrated. Only three weeks after the song was published, the Six-Day War broke out. The song was the battle cry and morale booster of the Israeli troops. Shemer even sang it for them before the war and festival, making them among the first in the world to hear it. On 7 June, the Israel Defense Forces captured the eastern part of Jerusalem and the Old City from the Jordanians. When Shemer heard the paratroopers singing "Jerusalem of Gold" at the Western Wall, she wrote a final verse, reversing the phrases of lamentation found in the second verse. The line about shofars sounding from the Temple Mount is a reference to an event that actually took place on 7 June.
And here is "Hatikvah" - the National Anthem of Israel