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“Jerusalem is one and united like Palestine… indivisible” - Palestinian Writers’ General Union

Official PA TV program Palestine This Morning, interview with Palestinian Writers’ General Union Secretary-General Murad Al-Sudani on a conference of Arab writer organizations held in Cairo, Egypt

 

Palestinian Writers’ General Union Secretary-General Murad Al-Sudani: “His Honor [PA]President [Mahmoud Abbas] said clearly that we have an absolute right to the Al-Buraq Wall (i.e., the Western Wall of the Temple Mount), and also to Jerusalem. And we as intellectuals say ‘Jerusalem’ and not ‘East [Jerusalem]’ or ‘West [Jerusalem],’ but rather it is one and united like Palestine, it is indivisible.”

[Official PA TV, Palestine This Morning, Feb. 13, 2023]

 

The Al-Buraq Wall – Islam's Prophet Muhammad is said to have ridden during his Night Journey from Mecca to "al aqsa mosque", i.e., "the farthest mosque" (Quran, Sura 17), and there tied his miraculous flying steed named Al-Buraq to a "stone" or a "rock." (Jami` at-Tirmidhi, Book 47, Hadith 3424). In the 1920's, Arab Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini decided to identify the Western Wall of the Temple in Jerusalem as that "rock" or "stone," and since then Muslims refer to the Western Wall as the "Al-Buraq Wall."

 

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