From the archive, 11 June 1971: Inter-faith municipality urged for Old City of Jerusalem
'History has placed our three communities here, and we have to find a spiritual as well as a physical way of coexistence'
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| An Orthodox nun holds a candle during a procession along the Via
Dolorosa in Jerusalem's Old City. Photograph: Baz Ratner/REUTERS |
A plan for making the Old City of
Jerusalem
into an "inter-faith municipality" was suggested yesterday by the
Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, the Most Rev George Appleton, when he
spoke to the Council of Christians and Jews in London on "The cost of
peacemaking."
He reminded his audience, which included the Chief
Rabbi, the Rev Dr Immanuel Jakobovits, that the holy city was only a
small area, a little more than one kilometre square, with 26,000 people
living inside it. But millions revered it, were moved by it to remember
sacred events, and were often better people because of those thoughts...
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"Created with the approval of the United Nations, the existence of
Israel ought to be guaranteed by that body as long as Israel is amenable
to the actions of that body. The borders drawn at the time of partition
and affirmed by the United Nations in 1956 must be respected by Israeli
and Arab alike until and unless they are changed by procedures of
negotiation under the aegis of that body." Rev Harold Bosley, Senior Minister Christ Church, Methodist, New York, July 10, 1967: Letter in the New York Times
Israeli Territorial Claims
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70B1FFA3A5E137A93C5A8178CD85F438685F9
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