Those tensions go all the way back to the Crusades - when Christian armies invaded the Holy Land.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

These are spelled out in Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20, those two chapters. Besides defiling the sinner, moral impurity symbolically defiles various sancta, especially the sanctuary, but also God's name and also the Holy Land itself.

这些都在《利未记》十八章和二十章里讲清楚了，除了玷污人使人变得有罪，道德上的不洁从象征意义上玷污了各层圣所，尤其是最外面那层圣所，同时也玷污了上帝的名字,和“圣地“这个名字。

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You shall not make yourselves unclean through any swarming thing that moves upon the earth. For I the Lord am He who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God: you shall be holy, for I am holy.

你们也不可在地上的爬物,污秽自己，我是把你们从埃及地领出来的耶和华,要作你们的神，所以你们要圣洁，因为我是圣洁的。

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Twal,a Jordanian who heads the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, said the Israeli occupation must end.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

They want to support President Barack Obama's initiatives for peace in the Holy Land through a two-state solution.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

He said he hopes his upcoming visit to the Holy Land next May can foster understanding among religions.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12