


Setting: Jerusalem, 10 June 1967 final day of the Six Day War
"Major Eitan Ben Moshe, an engineer officer from Central Command, who was in charge of the work, went about his job with gusto and anger, because of the urinal the Jordanians had set up to desecrate the Wall, which had already been removed. A small Mosque call al-Buraq, after the winged horse which had brought Mohammad to Jerusalem from Mecca, stood near the wall. 'I said, if the horse ascended to the sky, why shouldn't the mosque ascend too? So I crushed it until nothing was left.'"
Jeremy Bowen
Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East (2003) page 301/2 v
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