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Israel/Palestine

oberliner

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5. Here's an interview that may answer some of your questions

Reply to azurnoir (Reply #4)

Mon May 21, 2012, 07:24 PM

May 2012

It's from 2003

The Ras al-Amud neighborhood guards the Temple Mount
an interview with Uri Ariel

bitterlemons: What is the objective of establishing a Jewish neighborhood at Ras al-Amud, in the heart of Arab Jerusalem?

Ariel: The central objective is to create Jewish contiguity between different areas.

http://www.bitterlemons.org/previous/bl280403ed16.html#is2

He was a National Union MK at the time (and I believe currently)

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