On This Day โ June 7, 1967
โThe Temple Mount is in our hands!โ
Those historic words, broadcast live from the Old City, still send chills down the spine 58 years later.
Despite Israelโs urgent pleas for Jordan to stay out of the war, Jordanian forces opened fire on Jerusalem. Israel held back at first. But when Jordan continued shelling and seized UN headquarters, the IDF had no choice.
On June 7, paratroopers under Lt. Gen. Mordechai โMottaโ Gur stormed the Lionโs Gate. Gurโs voice, captured on tape, became legend:
โWeโre sitting right now on the ridge and weโre seeing the Old City. Shortly weโre going to go into the Old City of Jerusalem, that all generations have dreamed about ... The Temple Mount is in our hands! I repeat, the Temple Mount is in our hands!โ
Moments later, Chief IDF Chaplain Rabbi Shlomo Goren stood before the Western Wall and sounded the shofar. Battle-hardened soldiers wept as they recited the Shehecheyanu blessing.
Jerusalem was whole again.
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan declared at the Wall:
โTo our Arab neighbors we extend the hand of peace ... We did not come to Jerusalem to conquer the Holy Places of others.โ
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol met leaders of all faiths and pledged full religious freedom. Israel took the extraordinary step of leaving day-to-day administration of the Temple Mount with the Muslim Waqf while retaining overall security โ a gesture of restraint unheard of after centuries of Jewish restriction.
Within days, the barbed wire, minefields, and sniper walls that had divided the city for 19 years came down. Jews, Muslims, and Christians could finally walk freely. Hundreds of thousands flocked to touch the stones their ancestors could only dream of.
Nineteen years after Jordan ethnically cleansed every Jew from the Old City, the Jewish people had returned.
From that day forward, Jerusalem was liberated and reunited.
The dream of every generation lives on in Jewish hands today.
May we guard it with the same courage, wisdom, and moral clarity that won it on that miraculous June day.
Penn State student Billy Schmidt, 22, was shot and killed just yards from his South Philadelphia home in an apparent armed robbery.
Surveillance video captured him chasing two young men and yelling, "Give me back my phone" before the gunman shot him in the chest.
Another senseless death caused by entitled thugs.
Please pray for his family. ๐
82 years ago today, over 10,000 Americans were either killed, wounded or missing after the D-Day invasion. They are the shoulders we stand upon. Their sacrifice is why we STAND UP for our Flag. I dedicate this song to them today. Here's "The Man."
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During interviews when Biden was President, his handlers would jump if he was asked something beyond the agreed upon, scripted questions.
Here's an example. After some of the softest questions ever, the host tried to sneak in a real question to Biden.
March, 2024. 60 Minutes does a segment on the "rampant disinformation" on X since Elon Musk purchased the site.
Leslie Stahl: "The site is rife with trash talk and lies."
60 Minutes actually used a post that had gotten a Community Note for being fake as evidence that X is now "rife with disinformation."
60 Minutes warned that the "disinformation" on X could ruin elections and threaten democracy. ๐
Fun facts. Before the 2020 election Leslie Stahl told the world that Hunter Biden's laptop was just a conspiracy and that it had been discredited. Both lies. Before the 2024 election 60 Minutes edited Kamala's answers to make her sound coherent. Watch out for those posts with Community Notes on X though.
๐จ Meet Doris, she lives in California and is registered as a 126 year old who has voted in 51 elections and has NO IDEA.
Californiaโs voting system is so corrupt that by simply knocking on the door of the โ126 year oldโ proves election fraud.
EXPOSE IT ALL.
Trump is concerned this exchange of fire can blow up the agreement he predicts to be signed Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Do you believe there is any chance of a deal with or without Iranian rocket fire in Israel?