13 May 2019 — Jonathan Cook
Political interests drive tourism plan that would blight historic city’s skyline and bypass Palestinians
The National – 13 May 2019
A proposed cable car project through occupied East Jerusalem has received new impetus from the rise of the Israeli far right and Washington’s decision to move its embassy to the city. But if completed, critics say, the long-running proposal would contribute to erasing the visibility of Palestinians in the city they hope to make their capital.
Al-Quds is, literally, the holy city, for believers, Jewish, Christian, Muslim alike, called by non-Muslims Jerusalem (from “City of Shalem” after a Canaanite deity, during the early Canaanite period (approximately 2400 BCE)).
It was a find, literally, of biblical proportions. Last week, Israeli archaeologist Eli Shukron 