Posted on 11/08/2007 3:46:04 PM PST by F15Eagle
(IsraelNN.com) At a ceremony honoring the 40th anniversary of the liberation and reunification of Jerusalem this week, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi said that Jerusalem is the "raison d'etre" of our national existence in Israel. Speaking on Tuesday night at Binyanei HaUmah Convention Center in Jerusalem, he said the IDF will do everything it can to ensure Jerusalem remains Israel's eternal capital.
"Jerusalem symbolizes the reason and purpose for our lives here," Ashkenazi told the IDF Civilian Pensioners Organization. "It is the 'why' and 'wherefore' explaining why we are fighting. We will continue to do whatever we can to ensure that Jerusalem will forever remain the capital of Israel. And as the Prophet Isaiah said 2,700 years ago: 'On your ramparts, O Jerusalem, I have placed guards all day and all night.'"
In attendance were President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupoliansky, former Defense Ministers Moshe Arens and Yitzchak Mordechai, former Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon, and other dignitaries.
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Day of mourning for the US State Dept.
I’m sure Condi will grit her teeth over this statement. It goes against her little mission.
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