Dubya won't visit Western Wall
In his seeking to divide Jerusalem, the US president won't even visit the holy prayer site:
The advance team of President George W. Bush has requested to avoid "controversial" like Jerusalem's Western Wall and prefers Masada as the centerpiece of this visit to Israel. Bush will go from the 60th anniversary celebrations to a US-Arab summit in Sinai to which Israel has not been invited. On her recent trip, Condoleezza Rice report gave an American bridging document which calls for Jerusalem's division.By refusing to visit the Western Wall, all he is doing is showing contempt for Israel rather than solidarity.
Apparently George Bush is unwilling do what even Pope John Paul had no problem with: visit the Western Wall, or Kotel, in Jerusalem's Old City. Instead he and his team apparently are leaning to Masada, the site where a group of "zealot" Jews committed suicide en masse rather than fall captive to the Romans.
Organizers of Bush's planned two-and-a-half-day stay said they had been searching for a symbolic location for the president to visit, but wanted to avoid one that might stir controversy like the Western Wall, Golan Heights or Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.
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