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  • Israel-Palestine
    With killings in Jerusalem, prospect of U.S.-sponsored talks dims further

    “The pace and intensity of violence are accelerating,” said Robert Danin, a former U.S. diplomat who is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. “But it’s not at all clear there is a diplomatic means to stave it off. That’s what’s probably the hardest thing for American officials to get their heads around: What can you do, given how incendiary the environment there is?”

  • Israel-Palestine
    Jerusalem synagogue: Palestinians kill Israeli worshippers

    Four Israelis have been killed and eight injured as two men armed with a pistol and meat cleavers attacked a West Jerusalem synagogue, police say. The attackers - Palestinians from East Jerusalem - were shot dead.

  • Israel-Palestine
    Jerusalem unrest propelled by Palestinian teens

    The Penguin is the face of the 2014 Palestinian uprising in Jerusalem, of the rancor and violence that have been roiling the ancient city for the past four months. The Penguin is the victim or the troublemaker, depending in part on which side of Jerusalem — Arab or Jewish — you call home.

  • Israel-Palestine
    Israel, Palestinians agree to steps to calm Jerusalem tensions, Kerry says

    Israel and the Palestinians have pledged to take concrete steps to calm tensions around Jerusalem's holiest site, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday after talks in the Jordanian capital. Violence has flared in recent weeks over the compound, revered by Muslims as Noble Sanctuary, where al-Aqsa mosque stands, and by Jews as the Temple Mount, where their biblical temples once stood.

  • U.S.-Israel
    Why the Supreme Court’s ‘born in Jerusalem’ case is such a tinderbox

    Congress doesn’t agree with [the White House's] posture, and in 2002 it passed a law that, among other things, allows Jerusalem-born applicants for U.S. passports to record their place of birth as “Israel” if they so request. President Bush signed that law but attached a signing statement declining to enforce the passport provision because it “impermissibly interferes with the President’s authority to conduct the Nation’s foreign affairs.” Barack Obama similarly contends that the provision is unconstitutional. The "Zivotofsky vs. Kerry" case invokes this 2002 passport law and has returned a thorny debate over executive power and foreign policy to the highest court in the land.

  • Israel-Palestine
    Jerusalem car attack injures 14, driver shot dead

    A vehicle hit several Israeli settlers near occupied East Jerusalem Wednesday, Israeli media said, a day after a Palestinian was run over by an Israeli settler in the West Bank. According to Israel’s Haaretz the man driving the vehicle was shot and killed. The incident comes two weeks after Palestinian Abdul-Rahman Shaludi rammed his car into Israeli settlers, injuring six and killing one. Shaludi was also shot dead. Meanwhile, an Israeli settler driving through the occupied West Bank city of Beit Jala hit a Palestinian with his car on Tuesday, witnesses told Ma'an.

  • Israel-Palestine
    Jerusalem train line destined to connect Jews and Arabs has widened bitter divide

    When it opened three years ago, the Jerusalem Light Rail was hailed by city boosters as a symbol of coexistence, a whispery smooth ride across some of the most bitterly fought real estate in history.

  • Israeli Settlements
    Israel advances building plans in east Jerusalem

    The housing announcement could flare already soaring tensions in east Jerusalem, which has been the scene of violent unrest for months, including near-nightly clashes between police and Palestinian youths who have thrown rocks, firecrackers and sometimes fire bombs at passing vehicles and at Israelis living nearby.

  • Arabs and Israel
    Kuwaiti Official Makes Jerusalem Pilgrimage

    Sheikh Sabah's move was a rare and high-profile breaking of the longstanding Arab boycott against visiting the iconic Mosque of Omar (also known as the Dome of the Rock) and the al-Aqsa Mosque, both of which sit on top of what Arabs call al-Haram al-Sharif and Jews and Christians refer to as the Temple Mount. Known visits by prominent Arabs to the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount since 1967 can be counted on one hand: President Anwar Sadat of Egypt in 1977, Egyptian foreign minister Amr Mousa in 1994, and Egypt's Grand Mufti and a Jordanian prince in 2012. As recently as May of this year, former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal publicly declined an invitation to visit Jerusalem because it was under occupation -- though the offer came from his former Israeli counterpart, Amos Yadlin, with whom the prince was publicly debating regional issues, thereby breaking another Arab diplomatic convention.