Israel Parliament debates incursion into Holy Muslim site in Jerusalem

Juan Cole 02/27/2014

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Israel police, protesters clash at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque (via AFP)

Israeli police clashed with stone-throwing Palestinians Tuesday in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound of Jerusalem’s Old City, ahead of a parliamentary debate on Jewish access to the site, holy to both faiths. Israel captured the Old City from Jordan during…

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Follow him at @jricole