Jerusalemites of three faiths share their life stories and thoughts on the city's past, present and future.
"There's never been an Arab state here with the capital of Jerusalem," says Daniel Luria. "There's never been a Palestinian state here. This talk about Palestine, Palestine ... I've never heard of anything more absurd."
Luria is the executive director of Ateret Cohanim, a settler organisation working to create a Jewish majority in the city of Jerusalem. Raised in Australia, Luria says Israelis his only home, in spite of only having moved there 25 years ago. He is one of more than 850,000 people residing in Jerusalem.
After a peaceful period under Ottoman rule, where Islam, Christianity and Judaism coexisted in relative harmony, the decline of the empire and consequent victory of the British in Palestine during World War I set the stage for the eventual takeover of the city.
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