Here is the banner picture on PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat’s Twitter account:
It shows a church and the iconic Dome of the Rock – but nothing Jewish.
It turns out that to take a shot like this, avoiding any Jewish historical sites, is not easy.
The church is the Church of Mary Magdalene on the Mount of Olives. The Mount of Olives, of course, is a graveyard for tens of thousands of Jews, and Erekat would not want the world to see that.
The two domes are half a kilometer away from each other. It is difficult to frame a photo where they are comparable in size – it must have been taken from a great distance behind the church. Here’s how big the Dome is from a Google Streetview shot from next to the church.
To be sure, some professional photographers have managed to get similar shots, because it is dramatic to juxtapose the two domes. But Erakat didn’t choose his photo for its aesthetic qualities – he has specifically looked for and chosen a shot that makes Jerusalem look Arab Christian and Arab Muslim, with the deliberate aim of erasing Jerusalem’s Jewish character altogether.
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