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I researched several articles on this and found the best quotes on Fox, so I will proceed with no link. An alternate view will follow.
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Israel unveils ancient road ‘where Jesus walked’ to temple


U.S.Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, left, White House Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt, center, and Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator from South Carolina, attend the opening of an ancient road at the City of David, a popular archaeological and tourist site in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in east Jerusalem. The site is located on what many believe to be the ruins of the biblical King David's ancient capital and see as centerpieces of ancient Jewish civilization, but critics accuses the operators of pushing a nationalistic agenda at the expense of local Palestinian residents. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, Pool)

"People can literally immerse themselves in that environment, where the great biblical figures of the time where Jesus walked, we know that Jesus took this road. We know His visits to the Temple are well-documented. So you really have the opportunity to immerse yourself in ancient history in this incredible, stunning discovery."

"As Americans celebrate the Fourth of July and look back at the Founding Fathers and the biblical language they infused in the United States' founding documents, that the Word of God read by the Founders came from Jerusalem."

"When we think of America and its beginnings, well the physical beginnings we could think about Plymouth Rock or we could think about Valley Forge...but the spiritual underpinning, the bedrock of our principles as a nation, comes from Jerusalem," Friedman added. "So this site is a heritage site for America as well as for Israel. It's one of the best examples of that unbreakable bond, that ancient bond between the people of the United States and the people of Israel."
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/01/middleeast/friedman-pilgrimage-road-opening-intl/index.html

(CNN) The US Ambassador to Israel inaugurated a contentious archaeological dig in Jerusalem Sunday, in an act which a senior Palestinian official described as that of an "extremist Israeli settler."

Speaking at the ceremony, Friedman called Pilgrimage Road "one of the great archaeological discoveries" and said it vindicated US President Donald Trump.

"Were there any doubts about the accuracy, the wisdom, the propriety of President Trump recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, I certainly think this lays all doubts to rest," Friedman said.
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Saeb Erakat, Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Secretary General, wrote on Twitter: "I hope all the world including Americans can see this. That is not a US Ambassador, that is an extremist Israeli settler, with Greenblatt also there, digging underneath Silwan, a Palestinian town