On the long flight back to Jerusalem, Netanyahu was surely asking himself that question.

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Realizing what has happened, emboldened by their new faith, the travelers rush back to Jerusalem to share the news about Jesus with their friends.

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Among the many tribes permitted to return to their settlements were the Jews, who were allowed to take their statues and ceremonial vessels back to Jerusalem, where they were allowed to rebuild their temple.

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It is wonderful to be back in Jerusalem, the Eternal City.

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Likewise, Carol Delaney, a cultural anthropologist at Stanford University, concludes that Columbus was a deeply religious man whose purpose was to sail to Asia to obtain gold in order to finance a crusade to take back Jerusalem and rebuild the Jews' holy Temple.

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And so, seated at my Jerusalem window last year, ready to at last look back and write, I was familiar with the task at hand, the need to gather information and to then look for patterns in it.

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Mr. MATTHEW GUTMAN (Reporter, The Jerusalem Post): Israel often does pay to get hostages back, living or dead, and often pays exorbitant prices for it -probably prices that other countries wouldn't pay, in terms of both money and other prisoners.

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On Sunday The Jerusalem Post reported that the Pentagon has forced Israel Aerospace Industries to back out of a joint partnership with a Swedish aerospace company to compete in a multi-billion dollar tender to sell new multi-role fighters to the Indian air force.

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