SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
Q. GEOGRAPHICALLY, WAS THERE ANYTHING THAT MADE JERUSALEM SPECIAL BEFORE IT BECAME THE CENTRE OF THREE OF THE WORLD’S MAJOR RELIGIONS?
A. The development of Jerusalem as the universal holy city is one of the strangest phenomena of geopolitics and religious development. The fact is that there was nothing special about it, except the fact that it was a fortress/hill and there was a spring next to it. It was a natural place for people to build a settlement of sorts. Secondly it was a natural place to build a holy
