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Monday, July 20, 2009

Abbas: Israel wants Jewish-only Jerusalem

Ma'an
Israel intends to eliminate Jerusalem's Islamic and Christian character, President Mahmoud Abbas insisted in a speech in the central West Bank on Sunday evening...

"Israeli excavations across the holy city endanger its historical buildings and holy places, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque," Abbas said in Bethlehem, a city among the closest to Jerusalem that Palestinians can visit...

"Demolishing houses owned by Muslims and Christians in the city, as well as levying high taxes on Muslims and Christians there, are aimed only at forcing them to leave," the president said, stressing recognition of Palestinian rights in the city holy to three faiths as the "key to peace."

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