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Source: http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104603.html
Abbas Aide: Western Wall Is Ours
[JTA] Adnan Husseini, an adviser to Mahmoud Abbas, said Thursday that Palestinian demands for Israel to cede eastern Jerusalem under any peace accord also include the Western Wall. "This is part of Islamic heritage that cannot be given up, and it must be under Muslim control," Husseini told Israel's NRG Web site, adding that all of Jerusalem's Old City should be part of a future Palestinian state. The Western Wall is a last vestige of the Second Temple, which was razed by the Romans in 70 CE. Husseini's statements appeared to contradict several past land-for-peace proposals that had called for Israel to retain control of the Western Wall and Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City.