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PA TV: Western Wall area to be turned into Arab housing neighborhood

Palwatch.org (Link) - Itamar Marcus & Nan Jacques Zilberdik (August 17, 2011)

Official Palestinian Authority TV broadcast a documentary which stated that the PA plans to build an Arab residential area in place of the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem, �when they [Israelis] disappear from the picture, like a forgotten chapter in the pages of our city�s history.�

The Western Wall, a remnant of the Temple Mount, is Judaism�s holiest and most important prayer site.

The PA TV documentary further rejected the Jewish connection to Jerusalem, referring to Jewish history as �their false history,� while the Jews� praying at the Western Wall was called �sin and filth.�


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The following is the transcript of the excerpt of the PA TV documentary:

�They [Israelis] know for certain that our [Palestinian] roots are deeper than their false history. We, from the balcony of our home, look out over [Islamic] holiness and on sin and filth (Jews� praying at Western Wall) in an area that used to have [Arab] people and homes. We are drawing our new maps. When they [Israelis] disappear from the picture, like a forgotten chapter in the pages of our city�s history, we will build it anew (residential area). The Mughrabi Quarter will be built here (on the Western Wall Plaza).�
[PA TV (Fatah), Aug. 10, 2011]

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