“The word ‘Jerusalem’ means ‘City of Peace,’ yet no other hill in all the world has been bathed in so many streams of human blood as this. Nebuchadnazzeer destroyed Jerusalem. Titus left not one stone upon another. But in spite of all the armed host and ages of destruction, Jerusalem has marched down through the centuries of time, and stands tonight the best preserved of all the cities of antiquity.”

-Lowell Thomas
“With Allenby in Palestine” (1919)