Hundreds of thousands of nationalistic Israelis marched through East Jerusalem today, celebrating with song, dance and chants the 1967 War. Following six days of battle with Jordanian, Egyptian and Syrian forces forty-four years ago, Israel had expanded dramatically its territorial hold and annexed much of Jerusalem. At the beginning of every June, this conquest is celebrated as Yom Yerushalaim. “Yesterday the police arrested four children and three adults, and then they arrested another two,” said Jawad Siyyam, head of the [...]

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