Forty years on

摘要

With the damp of a rainstorm still hanging in the evening air, a human wave bore down on Jerusalem's old city from the west, engulfing the cool stone walls in a blue-and-white sea. Chanting, dancing and waving flags, thousands of young Israelis celebrated the capture of the ancient capital with a symbolic re-enactment—flowing through its narrow alleys towards the Western Wall, as Israeli troops did on June 7th 1967.