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Mon, 07/13/2009 - 20:10
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Israel endorses deletion of names of Arabian cities in occupied Palestine

The Occupied Al Quds, July 13, SPA -- The Israeli Occupation
Ministry of Transport announced that the occupation authorities will
wipe out the names of Arab towns in the occupied Palestine from the
sign boards and retain the Hebrew names alone.

Under the resolution, The Arabic name of Al Quds will not be
existed any more, it will be replaced by the Hebrew equivalent
Jerusalem and will be written in Arabic as Jerusalem.

Names of big cities will also be changed. Al Quds will be known
Jerusalem, Nazareth as Natzart, Jaffa as Yaffo and the Arabian city
of Safed in Galilee as Tesfat.

This decision will be applied gradually. The task of changing the
Arabic names will be entrusted to the Department of Public Works,
said the spokeswoman for the Israeli Ministry of Transport in a
statement to the press.

--SPA

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