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also Jews attained peace and security with the conquest of Jerusalem
by Muslims. The well-known Spanish-Jewish poet Yehuda al-Harizi
expressed his feelings thus in one of his works:

God …decided that the sanctuary would no longer rest in the
hands of the sons of Esau... Thus in the year 4950 of Creation

[AD 1190] God aroused the spirit of the prince of the Ish-
maelites [Salah al-Din], a prudent and courageous man, who
came with his entire army, besieged Jerusalem, took it and had
it proclaimed throughout the country that he would receive
and accept the race of Ephraim, wherever they came from. And
so we came from all corners of the world to take up residence
here. We now live in the shadow of peace. 24

After Jerusalem, the Crusaders continued their barbarity and the
Muslims their justice in other cities in Palestine. In 1194, Richard the
Lionheart, who is portrayed as a great hero in British history, had 3,000

Saladin and
Guy de
Lusignan
after battle of
Hattin in 1187