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jerusalem

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July 14th 2015
today we are starting to get tired we left at 815 and went to the garden tomb there is conjecture as to whether this is the burial place of Jesus is or the church of the holy seplechre or most likely neither place but I still enjoyed going to this site more than the church because it looks more like I would have imagined from the bible record it is in a garden and it is a tomb which would have had ... read more

Middle East » Israel » Jerusalem District » Jerusalem

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Following World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the UN partitioned the area into Arab and Jewish states, an arrangement rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis defeated the Arabs in a series of wars without... ... read more