THIS WEEK ON JERUSALEM

DATELINE.

A LOOK BACK AT THE MAJOR

STORIES OF

2017 AND THE IMPACT OF THE

2017 AND THE IMPACT OF THE

MIDDLE AGES

FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO THE

CALIPHATE

THAT ENDS IN RUINS IN NORTHERN

IRAQ.

AND STORIES FROM THE FRONTLINE

AND THE

PEOPLE WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE.

ALL THIS ON THIS WEEK'S

JERUSALEM

DATELINE.

WELCOME TO THIS SPECIAL

EDITION OF

JERUSALEM DATELINE.

I'M CHRIS MITCHELL. ONE OF THE

CHANGES

CAME AT THE END OF 2017.

DONALD TRUMP REVERSED THE

POLICY AND

RECOGNIZED ISRAEL AND THE

JERUSALEM

CAPITAL.

SHOCKED THE CAPITALS OF THE

WORLD AND

THE UNITED NATIONS.

BY CAPITALIZING THE EMBASSY

IN

JERUSALEM AND MOVING THE

EMBASSY THERE,

THAT BEHOLDEN THIS TRADITION.

WE COULD NOT SOLVE THE

PROBLEM BY

REPEATING THE SAME FAILED

STRATEGIES IN

THE PAST.

AFTER DECADES OF FAILED

PEACE

NEGOTIATIONS AND A CONTINUATION

OF

VIOLENCE, PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS

IT'S

TIME TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

IT IS TIME TO OFFICIALLY

RECOGNIZE

JERUSALEM AS THE CAPITAL OF

ISRAEL.

FOR DECADES, DEMOCRATS AND

REPUBLICANS MADE THE PROMISE OF

RECOGNIZING JERUSALEM BUT

FAILED

SEVERAL TIMES.

BUT ACKNOWLEDGED THE REALITY

THAT

JERUSALEM IS THE CAPITAL OF

ISRAEL.

THAT THEY WILL COME TO THIS

SOLUTION IF

THAT IS WHAT IS DECIDED.

ABOVE OUR GREATEST NEED FOR

PEACE IN

A UNIVERSAL YEARNING IN EVERY

SOUL.

IMMEDIATELY SUPPORT POURED

IN FROM

EVANGELICAL LEADERS. MIKE

HUCKABEE SAID

THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP DID WHAT

MANY

OTHERS DIDN'T HAVE THE COURAGE

TO DO

AND HOW TO MAKE PROMISES.

THE HISTORICAL RECORD EMPIRICAL

FACT

AND OUR FAITH IS THAT JERUSALEM

IS THE

CAPITAL OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. I

THEREFORE ENTHUSIASTICALLY

APPLAUD

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S DECISION. AND

SAYING

IT MARKS THE BEGINNING IN THE

UN --

POLICY.

THE EARLIER ONE ALLOWED

PERSECUTION AND

TERRORISM OF PEOPLE.

PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLING FOR THE

CONTINUATION OF THE STATUS QUO

IN

JERUSALEM.

JERUSALEM IS TODAY AND MUST

REMAIN A

PLACE WHERE JEWS PRAY AT THE

WESTERN

WALL, WHERE CHRISTIANS WALK THE

STATIONS OF THE CROSS; AND

WHERE

MUSLIMS WORSHIP AT A MOSQUE.

WHERE PRESIDENT TRUMP

ANNOUNCED, ARE

THEY WILL BEGIN A NEW EMBASSY

IN

JERUSALEM.

IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME TO

COMPLETE, BUT

THE PRESIDENT SAYS HE WILL

BUILD A NEW

TRIBUTE TO PEACE.

WHILE ISRAELIS APPLAUD THE

DECISION,

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITIES

DESCRIBE RAGE.

WHILE OTHER PAGES IN ARE

CONSIDERING

FOLLOWING THE U.S. IN MOVING

THEIR

EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM.

OTHERS INCLUDED REFERENDUM

VOTING

OVERWHELMLY FOR AN INDEPENDENT

STATE IN

IRAQ WHERE THEY FEAR FROM

BAGHDAD AND

TURKEY AND IRAN.

AND BRINGING IT CLOSER TO THE

LAND ALL

THE WAY FROM TEHRAN TO THEIR

MEDITERRANEAN.

THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT

EXPRESS TO

ISRAEL.

THE JIHADIST ALARMED

NORTHERN IRAQ

AND PART OF THE TERRORIST

CALIPHATE

UNDER THE IRAN SHIA LAW.

THEIR WOMEN KIDNAPPED AND SOLD

INTO

SLAVERY.

BY LATE 2017, THE IRAQI ARMY

AND U.S.

COALITION LED FORCES RAIDED

IRAQ.

CBN VISITED THE CITY AND

EXPERIENCED

FIRSTHAND WHAT WAS LEFT IN THE

WAKE OF

ISIS.

CBN NEWS ESCORTED BY IRAQI

NATIONAL

POLICE WHERE THE FIGHT AGAINST

ISIS WAS

AT ITS WORSE. WHERE LITERALLY

EVERYTHING WAS BLOWN OVER WITH

IED'S

AND DESTRUCTION.

IT'S VERY ERIE LIKE A QUIET

TOWN AS

A GHOST TOWN. WHICH REMINDS ME

WHAT IT

WAS LIKE WHEN WORLD WAR WAS AND

IT WILL

TAKE MANY YEARS TO RESTORE IT

TO WHAT

IT IT WAS.

THIS IS WHERE ABU BAKR

AL-BAGHDADI

CLAIMED THIS AREA IN 2014.

NOW THIS AREA LAY IN RUINS. HIS

FIGHTERS DEAD AND GONE.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT HERE

IS

DEVASTATION WHAT WE CAN SEE

AROUND US

IS THE PRICE THAT IT TOOK TO

DESTROY

THAT MOST VIAL OF PROJECTS THAT

WAS

DECLARED AS FORCES CALLING

ITSELF AS

ISLAMIC TERRORIST.

THE TIGRES RIVER SHOWS MOSUL

WHICH

THE EAST IS SHOWING LIFE BUT

THE WEST

IS IN RUINS.

IT LEFT THE CITY IN RUINS IN AN

ATTEMPT

TO SAVE IT. WE SEE THIS CHURCH

WHICH IS

A SYMBOL OF WHAT ISIS SOUGHT TO

DESTROY.

IN MOSUL ALONE, ISIS DESTROYED

DOZENS

OF CHURCHES AND BUILDINGS AND

DESTROYED

MANY CHRISTIAN FAMILIES.

I'M STANDING ON WHAT USED TO

BE THE

ST. KATHERINE'S CHURCH WHICH

WAS A

HOUSE FOR NUNS.

ISIS DESTROYED IT.

THEY USED THIS PLACE AS THEIR

HEADQUARTERS.

I HAVE BAD FEELINGS ABOUT THAT

BECAUSE

I AM COMPARING HOW IT WAS

BEFORE AND

NOW HOW IT IS AND NOT THE

BUILDING, BUT

THE ACT OF THE DOMINICAN

SISTERS.

HE SAYS THE DOMINICAN

SISTERS SERVED

AS A LIGHT TO MOSUL.

THEY WERE SERVING ALL THE

CHRISTIANS

IN MOSUL WHICH HAD A BIG

IMPORTANCE

BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OF MOSUL

KNOWS THE

DOMINICAN SISTERS, THEY

ESTABLISHED

MANY SCHOOLS IN MOSUL AND ALL

THE

PEOPLE NOW WHO ARE IN A GOOD

POSITION

IN IRAQ, THEY ARE GRADUATED

FROM THIS

SCHOOL ESPECIALLY IN MOSUL.

THAT'S WHY

THE NUNS HAD A GOOD REPUTATION

IN MOSUL.

THE CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION

PROVIDED

FOOD AND RELIEF TO CITY MUSLIMS

HERE

WHEN THE CITY OPENED UP.

WHEN THEY OPENED HERE, ON

THE SAME

DAY THEY ARE DISTRIBUTING FOOD

TO

FAMILIES. WE KILLED CHRISTIANS

AND NOW

YOU ARE HELPING US. WE DIDN'T

UNDERSTAND THAT.

JOINED FROM CFI WITH US, TOLD

US THAT

IS CHRISTIANITY.

THEY LOVE THEIR ENEMIES AND YOU

ARE NOT

THEIR ENEMIES. YOU ARE VICTIMS

OF ISIS

AS CHRISTIANS, THAT'S WHY WE

ARE HERE

TO HELP YOU.

WHILE MOST OF MOSUL LIES IN

RUINS,

THEY HOPE FOR A BETTER FUTURE.

I HOPE IT IS BETTER. THAT IS

MY

DREAM.

COMING UP, CBN DOCUMENTARY

COMMEMORATES ONE OF MODERN

ISRAEL'S

GREATEST VICTORY THE BATTLE FOR

JERUSALEM. ISRAEL'S GREATEST

THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM.

IN 2017 ISRAEL CELEBRATED

ANOTHER

ANNIVERSARY IT MARKED 100 YEARS

CALLING

FOR A JEWISH HOMELAND THAT SET

A MOTION

IN THE COUNTRY'S FOUNDING.

ALLEN CAPTURED JERUSALEM AND

ENDED 400

YEARS OF MUSLIM OTOMAN RULE

CALLING FOR

BOTH JEWISH AND ARAB STATES.

FOR MANY, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT

MILESTONE WAS THE 1967 SIX-DAY

WAR

WHERE ISRAELI UNIFIED JERUSALEM.

FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, THE

JEWISH

COMMEMORATED THIS IN HISTORY.

ERIC ZIMMERMAN'S FILM CALLED

"IN OUR

HANDS, THE BATTLE FOR FOR

JERUSALEM".

THEY REACHED THE JORDANIAN

BUNKER.

FOR THE NEXT 45 MINUTES, THEY

LINED THE

BUNKER WITH 21 POUNDS OF TNT.

THIS IS AMMUNITION HILL.

THIS IS THE SITE OF WHAT IS

STILL TODAY

THE BLOODIEST BATTLE IN HISTORY.

CBN'S AARON ZIMMERMAN, A

DOCUDRAMA

TELLING THE STORY OF THE 1967

WAR OF

JERUSALEM.

THEY LET US RUN THIS PLACE

FOR TWO

1/2 NIGHTS. WE HAD SNIPERS

SHOOTING

FROM THE BUNKER AND THEY SHOWED

US THE

BUNKER WHERE ISRAELIS TOOK TO

THE TOP

OF THE HILL AND THEY SHOWED US

THAT AND

SAID YOU ARE WELCOME TO USE

THIS BUNKER

TO STAGE YOUR EXPLOSION AND I

THOUGHT

THAT WAS GREAT IF IT SURVIVED A

REAL

ONE, IT COULD SURVIVE THIS ONE.

THEY WERE TALKING TO TROOPS

ON THE

MOUNTAIN.

WE SOON SHALL ENTER IT.

THE CITY OF JERUSALEM WHICH

GENERATIONS

HAVE LONGED FOR. WE WILL ENTER.

UNDER THE THREAT OF SNIPER

FIRE TO

TAKE THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND THE

WESTERN

WALL.

WE HAD DONE ANOTHER

DOCUDRAMA AS THE

HOPE OF CAPTURING THIS STORY.

WE THOUGHT, LET'S NOT DO A DRY

DOCUMENTARY.

LET GET TO KNOW SOME OF THE MEN

WHO

ACTUALLY LIVED IT.

DIGGING THROUGH THE

BACKGROUND

HISTORICAL DATA, THAT MUST HAVE

BEEN

DIFFICULT.

I TRIED TO USE DIARIES AND

MINUTES

FROM PERSONAL GOVERNMENT

MEETINGS.

ALL THE DIALOGUE IN THE FILM

WAS

RECORDED IN HISTORY.

AS A RESULT OF THE WAR,

ISRAEL

TRIPLED IN SIZE MEETING THE

COMBINED

ARMIES ARE SYRIA, EGYPT AND

JORDAN TO

WIN THE GOAL AN HEIGHTS AND

REUNITED

THE BELOVED JERUSALEM.

WE NARROWED IT DOWN TO THE

BATTLE OF

JERUSALEM.

AND I LIKED THEM BECAUSE THEY

WEREN'T

THE REGULAR ARMY. THEY WERE THE

RESERVIST. THEY WERE OLDER, THE

FATHERS, THE BUSINESSMEN AND

THEY WERE

THE GUIDES THAT ENDED UP GOING

INTO

JERUSALEM.

WE LOOK FOR BETTER CHANGE.

I ASKED ZIMMERMAN WHAT SHE

WANTS THE

AUDIENCE TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE

FILM.

TWO THINGS: I TRY HARD TO

KEEP IT

AS A POLITICAL AS POSSIBLE TO

GIVE IT A

WIDER AUDIENCE. NO. 1, I WANT

THEM TO

SEE THE SACRIFICE THAT THESE

MEN MADE.

NO. 2, WE WENT BACK 20 YEARS TO

1948 TO

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE JEWISH

CORRIDOR

FELL AND THEY CLEANED EVERY

JERUSALEM

AND THEN THEY SAID WE HAD

RETURNED TO

THIS PLACE THAT NO JEW COULD

EVER ENTER

AND THEN WE RETURNED.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE FOR THE

FILM?

I HOPE IT WILL BE GOOD. I

HOPE THEY

TAKE AWAY THEIR PRIDE AND

HERITAGE.

EVERYTHING IT'S THAT'S

OCCURRED

HERE, THERE IS NO WAY THAT

ISRAEL JEWS

ARE GOING TO GIVE UP THIS CITY.

NO, I DON'T THINK SO.

COMING TO THIS CITY NEVER TO

DEPART

FROM IT AGAIN.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET A

COPY OF

"IN OUR HANDS, THE BATTLE FOR

FOR

JERUSALEM" YOU CAN GO TO IN OUR

HANDS

1967.COM.

COMING UP. THE CITY OF DAVID

AND ITS

HISTORY.

YOU CAN SEE THIS IS SPEEDING

UP AS

WE GO.

2017 ALSO SAW A NUMBER OF

2017 ALSO SAW A NUMBER OF

ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN

ISRAEL AND

IN THE CITY OF DAVID. PEOPLE

MAY

BELIEVE IT'S THE SAME PLACE

KING DAVID

SET UP HIS CAPITAL 3,000 YEARS

AGO.

BUT THAT'S NOT EXACTLY THE CASE.

TODAY, ARCHEOLOGIST ARE

UNCOVERING THAT

CITY TELLING AN AMAZING STORY.

WE ARE LOOKING AT THE CITY

FROM

HERE.

WE HAVE THIS AREA OVER THERE.

SHE SERVES AS THE OUTREACH

COORDINATOR FOR THE CITY OF

DAVID.

WELCOME TO THE CITY OF

DAVID. THE

HOME OF JERUSALEM.

AFTER 150 YEARS AGO, EVERYBODY

THOUGHT

THAT THE ANCIENT BIBLICAL

JEWISH LIE IN

THE CONFINES IN THE CITY RIGHT

BEHIND

YOU.

THE QUESTION IS WHAT HAPPENED

150 YEARS

AGO AND WHERE IS THE ANCIENT

JERUSALEM?

SHE HELPED TO ANSWER THAT

QUESTION

BY EXPLAINING HOW THE CITY LAY

HIDDEN

FOR OVER 1,000 YEARS WHILE THEY

CONTINUE IN THE DISCOVERY THAT

CONTINUES TODAY.

THIS IS A PLACE WHERE CHARLES

SAW

SOMETHING AND WHEN HE SAW THIS,

HE KNEW

THAT HE REDISCOVERED THE

ANCIENT

BIBLICAL JERUSALEM.

MOST PEOPLE THOUGHT WHEN THEY

CAME WHAT

THEY SAW IN THE OLD CITY THAT

WAS THE

ANCIENT JERUSALEM.

BUT WHEN HE SAW THIS, HE

DISCOVERED.

WAIT A MINUTE, THE ANCIENT

JERUSALEM

LIES OUTSIDE OF WHAT WE CALL

TODAY THE

OLD CITY.

THE DISCOVERY OF THIS TUNNEL

SYSTEM

VISUALLY TELLS HOW KING DAVID

CAPTURED

THE CITY AND BRINGS THE BIBLE

TO LIFE.

IT'S THE BIBLE AND THE

EXCAVATIONS

AND THE EXCAVATIONS AND THE

BIBLE

TELLING US THE TRUTH.

THEN DOWN WERE THE KINGS.

MOST OF THE KINGS WHERE WE

ARE

STANDING NOW IN THE PLACE OF

ANOINTING.

AND SHE EXPLAINS THE BIBLE.

DAVID, SOLOMON, TO ISAIAH

WHEN HE

WAS GIVEN TO HIS PROPHECIES

HERE.

ALL OF WHERE WE ARE STANDING

NOW.

AND WHAT WAS FED BY THE

SPRING.

AND WHERE JESUS HEALED THE

BLIND MAN

AND WHERE PEOPLE WOULD GATHER

FOR THE

FEAST OF THE LORD.

THIS TIME OF YEAR, ALL OF

THEM HAD

TO COME TO MAKE WAY IN THE POOL

AND

FROM THERE GET READY TO GO TO

TEMPLE

MOUNT.

THIS IS THE WALK. THE FINAL

THING THAT

ALL PILGRIMS CAN DO WHEN THEY

COME TO

JERUSALEM.

THIS FINAL ASSENT AS A MERGER

TO

ARCHAEOLOGY AND PROPHECY.

SOMETHING AMAZING IS

HAPPENING

BECAUSE WE ARE NOW EXCAVATING

THIS ROAD

AND THEY ARE GOING TO BOARD UP

THE

ROAD, THE HIGHWAY, AND WE

REMOVE THESE

STONES FOR MY PEOPLE'S RETURN.

ONE ON GOING EXCAVATION IS

THIS

TUNNEL LEADING TO THE TEMPLE

MOUNT.

IT REVEALS THE PAST AND OPENS

THE DOOR

TO THE FUTURE. ONE OF THE CITY

OF

DAVID'S MOST AMBITIOUS PROJECT

IS THIS

EXCAVATION WHERE THE ENTIRE

HISTORY OF

JERUSALEM IS BEING REVEALED AS

IF THE

ROCKS ARE CRYING OUT.

YOU CAN SEE EXACTLY HOW SHE

HAS

SLOWLY DISAPPEARED FROM

CIVILIZATION

BECAUSE ONE DISAPPEARED FROM

BEHIND

ANOTHER. AND YOU SEE HOW IT

LIES HOPING

WHO WILL DISCOVER ME AGAIN.

NOTHING CAN

STOP IT. THAT'S WHAT WE CAN SEE.

JERUSALEM IS SLOWLY BEING

REBUILT.

SHE'S STARTING TO SHOW HER

BLUEPRINTS

AND SHOW WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE

AGAIN.

AS WE GO, SHAKE OFF YOUR DUST

AND RISE,

TAKE YOUR RIGHT FULL PLACE,

JERUSALEM.

YOU CAN SEE THE DUST LITERALLY

FLYING

AND HOW SHE IS SHAKING OFF HER

DUST.

SHE CONSIDERED HER ROLE IN

JERUSALEM

A PRIVILEGE.

I FEEL LIKE THE LUCKIEST

PERSON IN

THE WORLD BECAUSE I HAVE THE

OPPORTUNITY TO TELL THE PEOPLE

ABOUT

THE CITY OF DAVID, ABOUT

JERUSALEM AND

EVERYBODY WHO IS SERIOUS ABOUT

JERUSALEM AND SERIOUS ABOUT

THIS

PROPHECY NEEDS TO KNOW THIS.

COMING UP, HEROES AND

HEROINES IN

2017 THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE.

IN A YEAR OF VIOLENCE AND

IN A YEAR OF VIOLENCE AND

DEVASTATION, WE MET SOME PEOPLE

WHO

SHOWED US WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE.

FROM

THE FRONT LINES OF THE WAR

AGAINST ISIS

TO THE DEPTH OF THE SYRIAN

CIVIL WAR,

THESE MEN AND WOMEN RISK THEIR

LIVES TO

SAVE OTHERS.

SOME CALL OF 12 SECONDS OF

LOVE.

THE BANK OF THE BERM -- A

RANGES TO

SAVE A GIRL AND WHY HE DID IT.

FOR LOVE. I WOULD LOVE FOR

SOMEONE

TO SAVE MY KID. WHEN YOU ARE

TERRIFIED,

YOU ASK GOD. IF HE SAYS, DO IT

AND ASK

FOR LOVE. BECAUSE WHEN YOU ARE

REALLY

SCARED, YOU NEED LOVE.

WHEN YOU HAVE LOVE, YOU WOULD

DO

ANYTHING FOR ANYONE. SO LOVE IS

WHAT

MAKES YOU REALLY GOOD. GOD GAVE

ME

ENOUGH OF THAT TO RUN ACROSS,

GRAB THE

GIRL.

IN ANOTHER THEATRE OF WAR,

DEBBIE

DENNYSON THEY WERE IN THE

FIGHT.

YOU HAVE TO CARE ENOUGH TO

LAY DOWN

MY LIFE AND MY ANSWER WAS YES.

SHE PERFORMED SURGERIES LIKE

A

C-SECTION.

WHEN I DELIVERED THAT BABY

HE WAS IN

MY HANDS TO BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN

NEW LIFE

IN MIDST OF A HORRIFIC WAR WAS

JUST A

BLESSING BEYOND BELIEF.

THEY FOUND HOPE IN THE MIDST

OF THE

DESPAIR IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

NO MATTER WHAT THE BARRIERS,

ALL

PEOPLE RESPOND TO LOVE. IN A

COMMUNITY

WHERE THEY DIDN'T KNOW US AND

THEY HAVE

AN HISTORIC AND AN ANIMOSITY

AGAINST

CHRISTIANS, WE WERE WELCOMED

WITH OPEN

ARMS.

THOSE OPEN SELFLESS LOVE

ACTS ARE

REMINDERS OF THE HEROES AND OF

THE

FAITH.

AND IT'S AN INSPIRATION TO LIVE

AND

MORE THAN THOSE WHO NEVER FOR

SAKE US.

THAT WILL DO IT FOR THIS

EDITION OF

JERUSALEM DATELINE.

HAPPY NEW YEAR.

WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT YEAR ON

JERUSALEM

DATELINE.