PA TV: Western Wall area to be turned into Arab housing neighborhoodPalwatch.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.� 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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