Nigeria: Jerusalem - One God, Many Nations, Diverse History

6 February 2011

Jerusalem — In this piece, our special correspondent Nuhu Yarwa, journeys into the heart of historic Jerusalem. Any historical chronicle of the State of Israel (which came into being via British Prime Minister Sir Balfour's declaration in 1948), or Arab fountains (since the creation or dark ages), must, either way, remember in glowing tributes eight to nine historic grand dramas of great international dimensions.

These ethnic and racial configurations among people and communities in the lands of the Asyrians, Jebusians, Filistins, Egyptians and Arabians have, plus and minus, empirically given the land of Palestine - both the central cities and environs - the definitive cultural rainbow of the past millennia.

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