In its report on the violence in Jerusalem, the Washington Post reports:
Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside the Holy Land’s most volatile shrine, where past violence has escalated into prolonged conflict.
This doesn’t quite give the whole picture, as Barry Rubin recently explained:
The salient fact is that 80 years after the 1929 riots the same scenario has prevailed of demonization and lies about Jews, deliberately inflamed by Arab political and religious forces, has led to massive Arab violence.
(For details behind the 1996 riots read this.)
The New York Times also reported on the recent violence. And Meryl recalls some relevant history that the newspapers won’t.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.