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Jerusalem City Council Cancels Monument Plan for 1967 Arab War Dead

December 23, 1968
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After a stormy meeting of the Jerusalem City Council executive committee, the municipality has suspended a permit to the Wafq, the Moslem religious and charitable organization to erect in East Jerusalem monuments to the Arab victims of the Six-Day war here. A full meeting of the Council will vote on the issue later this week. Some executive committee members complained that Mayor Teddy Kollek had issued the permit without consulting them. Other Council members complained that the plan to put on the monuments markers stating that the Arabs had fallen “for Allah,” a phrasing held to imply that the Arabs died while fighting a holy war.

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