It had never before occurred to me to look it up on the internet. I did so and came up with the above, but also with the following from Wikipedia:
Elsewhere Wikipedia reports:"Jerusalem of Gold" (Hebrew: ירושלי� של זהב‎, Yerushalayim Shel Zahav) is a popular Israeli song written by Naomi Shemer in 1967. The original song described the Jewish people's 2000-year longing to return to Jerusalem; Shemer added a final verse after the Six-Day War to celebrate Jerusalem's unification under Jewish control.
Naomi Shemer wrote the original song for the Israeli Music Festival on 15 May 1967, the night after Israel's nineteenth Independence Day. She chose the then-unknown Shuli Nathan to sing the song. At that time, the Old City was under Jordanian rule; Jews had been barred from entering, and many holy sites had been desecrated. Only three weeks after the song was published, the Six-Day War broke out. The song was the battle cry and morale booster of the Israeli troops. Shemer even sang it for them before the war and festival, making them among the first in the world to hear it. On 7 June, the Israel Defense Forces captured the eastern part of Jerusalem and the Old City from the Jordanians. When Shemer heard the paratroopers singing "Jerusalem of Gold" at the Western Wall, she wrote a final verse, reversing the phrases of lamentation found in the second verse. The line about shofars sounding from the Temple Mount is a reference to that actually happening on 7 June.
This song has been translated loosely into many languages. It was also chosen as the "Song of the Year" in Israel in 1967.
When people condemn Israel for its actions and aspirations involving the "Occupied Territory," they exhibit a stunning reliance on highly selective short-term memory. One can only guess that these liberals would have been far less vocal about the nearly two years of occupation and desecration that presaged the Yom Kippur War.The West Bank and East Jerusalem were occupied by Jordan (formerly Transjordan) for a period of nearly two decades (1948–1967) starting from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. In 1950, with British approval, and despite Arab League opposition, Jordan extended its jurisdiction over the West Bank. The inhabitants of the West Bank became citizens of Jordan.
For many, many Jews returning to 1967 is returning to a state of occupation which, at that time, presented the Jewish people with a very real existential threat. That so many non-Jews long for this return is shameful.
