Palestinian students in the West Bank burned a model of the Temple as part of a protest against the Israeli exhibit that recently opened at Disney World’s EPCOT center. “We reject Walt Disney’s action to depict Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and we condemn the Arab silence towards the Judaization of occupied Jerusalem,” one student was quoted as saying.
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