AMMAN — The Israeli Cabinet approved a budget addition of
$16.5 million to upgrade infrastructure and carry out archaeological work at
the Western Wall and its tunnels, Israeli media outlets reported.
اضافة اعلان
This came during a meeting held by Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu at the Western Wall tunnels, to okay a five-year plan for
the expansion of funding of Judaization projects in occupied Jerusalem.
At the same meeting, Netanyahu responded to Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s recent statement that Israel is lying about
its historic ties to the city.
Response to Abbas
“Abbas said days ago at the UN that the Jewish people has no
connection to the Temple Mount and that east Jerusalem is part of the
Palestinian Authority,” Netanyahu said.
“Well, it should be brought to his attention that we are
holding a special cabinet meeting in honor of Jerusalem at the foot of the
Temple Mount (Al-Haram Al-Sharif) that on which King Solomon built the First
Temple of the Jewish people, and again, it should be brought to Abbas’s
attention, the heart of the historic State of Israel, the City of David, was here
3,000 years ago.”
Abbas at the UN event commemorating 75 years of Nakba,
marking the catastrophe of Israel’s establishment, where Israeli forcibly
displaced of about 750,000 Palestinians from their cities and towns, said that
Israel “dug under Al-Aqsa… they dug everywhere, and they could not find
anything.”
“The ownership of Al-Buraq Wall and Al-Haram Al-Sharif
belongs exclusively and only to the Islamic Waqf alone,” he added.
Netanyahu responded saying that Jerusalem was the “Jewish
capital 1,100 years before London was the capital of England, 1,800 years
before Paris was the capital of France and 2,800 years before Washington DC was
the capital of the US”.
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