It has virtually been conquered by the MuSSlims since 1967. It, like all of Israel, most certainly hasn't been liberated by any stretch. I wish the Jews of Israel and the Liberal Diaspora had as much respect and emotion for themselves and their own as they do for the Arabs...
It's also because we haven't liberated it that we are criticized. On the one hand we say it's ours, but we don't take it. Therefore countries view us as an illegal occupier
The thing that made the world respect Israel in the 67 wars was the fact it did what it needed to do. They were the envy of the world back then. Today with all the back pedaling all that admiration is gone and you have the situation that unfolds as we speak.
Things werent so great back then. Mr. Dayan told all the Arabs living in the conquered territories to stay when they were ready to leave, imagine how much trouble could have been saved.
The same fellow that plundered the historical sites during his "archeology" ventures? The same fellow, with that Socialist C-NT Golda Mabovitz that almost got Israel destroyed due to her immense arrogance in '73? The ONLY thing in my book that Mr. woops Mrs. Mabovitz-Meyerson-Meir did during her entire time of Prime Minister was to openly contradict their being a "P-lestinian People", Operation Wrath of G-d.
During the repeated shelling by Egypt during the Suez Canal in the War of Attrition, Meir should have appealed to the UN (just for justification) and than carpet bombed Cairo!
From "Wikipedia":
Meir believed that Israel could not depend on European countries to supply Israel with military equipment, and that as a result, the only country who could come to Israel's assistance would be the United States. Fearing that the U.S. would be wary of intervening if Israel were perceived as initiating the hostilities, Meir finally decided against launching a pre-emptive strike. In hindsight, this was apparently a wise decision; then-U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger later confirmed Meir's assessment by stating that if Israel had launched a pre-emptive strike, Israel would not have received "so much as a nail". Meir's decision may have been crucial in making Operation Nickel Grass politically feasible for the United States. My answer to this would have been...there wouldn't have been a '73 War IF Israel pre-empted! Israel wouldn't have needed "Operation Nickel Grass". I believe there was FAR more to this story than is posted on Wikipedia. Meir, didn't believe the Arabs would strike in her arrogance combined with the incompetance of Yitzak Rabin...
Again, Kahane was right and the Mapai, Labor Zionists: "Jewish" Socialists were wrong then and are emphatically wrong now. My two cents and out on this subject...