A decade of relative calm has created the mirage of a situation that can be 'managed', but management just obscures the reality.
All this was followed by the bangs of stun grenades. This has happened numerous times since Ramadan began just under a month ago.
Ramadan this year comes during a fierce heatwave in a pandemic in which Palestinians have been disproportionally hit. But it runs much deeper than that. Backed by powerful Jewish lobbies and an Israeli court, the settlers have demanded the Palestinians leave the land because it was owned by a Jewish religious association before 1948. A 1970 Israeli law allows Jews to reclaim land and property in East Jerusalem but no equivalent law exists for Palestinians whose land has been taken by Israelis since the State of Israel's formation in 1948.
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