Silwan is also the site of a large and controversial building plan adopted last week by the municipality's planning committee.

西尔万也是上周由市规划委员会通过的一项大规模且具争议的建设计划中的一处。

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Activist Abdel Halim Shaloudi, a member of the Committee for the Defense of the Territory of Silwan, believes the Israelis' real motive is to drive out the Arabs and make this a Jewish area.

活动人士夏洛迪是保护西尔万领土委员会的成员，他认为以色列真实的动机是要将阿拉伯人撵走，改为犹太人的家园。

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An Israeli motorist runs down a masked Palestinian youth who was standing among a group of youngsters throwing stones at Israeli cars in the mostly Arab east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.

大约是在西尔万附近的阿拉伯东耶路撒冷地区，一名以色列汽车司机撞到了一名带着面具的巴勒斯坦年轻人，这个年轻人当时站在一群向以色列的汽车扔石头的青年之中。

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The climb up Silwan's hillside stairways is a tricky obstacle course.

ECONOMIST: Jerusalem

Parts of Silwan, on the eastern slopes below the Old City, are already precariously propped up on iron stilts, to facilitate the excavation of King David's biblical city, which is said to lie beneath.

ECONOMIST: Jerusalem

The abject abandonment of Judaism's holiest site by successive governments has facilitated not only the radicalization of Jerusalem Arabs from surrounding neighborhoods, like Silwan, it has also emboldened global jihadists to believe that Jerusalem - and Israel with it - will soon fall into their hands.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: All roads lead to Jerusalem