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Palestinians have long viewed the Jerusalem Day flag march as a provocation and clashes sometimes occur between marchers and Arab residents of the Old City.

Nothing demonstrates the problems and paradoxes of Jerusalem’s status and situation as this annual event, a celebration of the reunification of the capital during the Six Day War.

Politicians have no choice but to allow the parade, which is often accompanied by violence and racist chants, year after year

Opinion: Zionism gave up its role in discussions on who is considered a Jew, in exchange for political cooperation of Israel's religious parties; debate on conversion reform is a chance to embrace a new Jewish identity, one that includes non-religious public

Get email notification for articles from Amos Harel Follow Jul. 15, 2021 6:01 AM More than a month after the new government was sworn in, the sparring matches between the coalition and the opposition seem to be of greater interest to the lawmakers involved than to the public. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s departure from the official Balfour Street residence in Jerusalem has greatly reduced the daily drama. What he now has left are mainly mutual recriminations with his successor,...

So that had been the context for this break of the ceasefire, albeit not a return to the kind of intense hostilities we were seeing a few weeks ago and no rockets fired, importantly, from gaza towards israel, which would have been a sign i think of another steep escalation if that response had taken place as well. now, all of that came in the context of the events in jerusalem and that was an ultranationalist flag march that took place, israelis matching towards occupied eastjerusalem towards th...

Flag parade: Israel's intention to hold the flag parade, cancelled because of Hamas rocket fire targeting Jerusalem (the beginning of Operation Guardian of the Walls) enraged the Palestinians, whose responses included threats to renew the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. Judea and Samaria: A shooting attack was carried out near Elon Moreh (east of Nablus), targeting an Israeli civilian vehicle. No casualties were reported. Rebuilding the Gaza Strip: The Egyptian army sent engineers and heav...

From the blog of Diana Lipton at The Times of Israel

Haaretz has falsely charged that the Israeli-Palestinian violence started due to \'a disrespectful attack at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.\' Ignoring the evidence, many other media

To understand the rage in the mixed Jewish-Arab cities, one has to look at social media