This footage was taken by Dr. Martin Richter from Basel, Switzerland, who visited Israel one month after the Six Day War (hat tip: Yomi)
You can feel the excitement of Jews who were able to pray at the Western Wall for the first time in 19 years, and there is certainly no hint of panic from the Arab population going about their business.
This movie brings back fond memories of simpler, more innocent times. There was free, unfettered access to the all the holy sites including the Temple Mount. Everything changed with the initiation of the Oslo ‘Peace’ process and the naive ‘importation’ of Yassar Arafat and his PLO jihadists into Gaza and Ramallah. ‘Yes’ became ‘No’. The positive turned negative.
the nonchalant behavior of the soldiers – all pre-Oslo