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(9 Feb 2001) English/Nat XFA Guarded by police around the clock, Ariel Sharon's house stands empty in the heart of the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City, a symbol of the Israeli prime minister-elect's intention to keep all of the holy city. The imposing stone house represents Sharon's core belief that Jews have the right to live anywhere inside the walls of the contested Old City, even the Muslim Quarter. Palestinians see the quarter as theirs, calling Sharon's house a provocation. One Palestinian man not happy about Sharon having a house in the Muslim Quarter says he is the neighbor of a killer. Sharon has scarcely spent a night in the house since he bought it in 1987. The current round of Palestinian unrest started with Sharon's demonstrative Sept. 28 visit to a disputed holy site in the Old City, sacred to both Muslims and Jews and claimed by both. Sharon's election was welcomed as a blessing by Jewish seminary students who live and study in the Muslim Quarter. Dancing, clapping, and singing Jerusalem's praises, they hoisted an 80-year-old refurbished Torah scroll from Poland in the air and swirled around it with Israeli flags. In the 1948 Mideast war, predominately Arab east Jerusalem, including the Old City, came under Jordanian control. Jews were not permitted to pray at the Western Wall, their holiest shrine. After capturing the area in 1967, Israel annexed it. Barak was the first Israeli leader to offer the Palestinians shared control of Jerusalem. Under his peace plan, the Muslim Quarter would have been transferred to the Palestinians. Sharon has pledged to keep all of the city under exclusive Israeli sovereignty. Sharon aide Raanan Gissin said that before the 1948 Mideast War, many of the houses on the street where his house stands were Jewish-owned. He said Sharon bought the house to establish a Jewish presence on a road leading to the Western Wall. Over the last three decades, Jews have bought dozens of properties in the Muslim Quarter. SOUNDBITE (Arabic/English) " I am a neighbour of a killer." SUPERCAPTION: Voxpop SOUNDBITE: (English) "Ariel Sharon is not living here" Q. But he owns this house?" "He owns this house, he says that he owns this house but I don't know if he lives here or not". SUPERCAPTION: Voxpop Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...