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...rounds of violence. To do so, the police block access to prayers at the Muslim holy sites for men under the age of 50, which further inflames Palestinian passions, as does the heavy police presence required to keep order. It's a vicious cycle, says Jerusalem Police Chief Aharon Franco. "No one knows if there is going to be another intifada, but if there is, it will start in Jerusalem." Just like the last one did, in 2000, after the failure of a previous round of U.S.-led peace negotiations. With reporting by Aaron J. Klein in Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Too Late to Share Jerusalem? | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

...witnesses in proceedings that already run to more than 9,000 pages. And while the original charges against the ossuary appear to have been popularly accepted as conventional wisdom, they seem to be headed for trouble in the courtroom where the fine reading of law comes into play. Judge Aharon Farkash, who has a degree in archaeology, has wondered aloud in court how he can determine the authenticity of the items if the professors cannot agree among themselves. (Read a story from TIME's archive on the ossuary of James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burial Box of Jesus' Brother: Fraud? | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

...much the same way that it funded—until now, that is—Arab schools that continued indoctrinating their students with subtle hatred for the state, the Israeli government, with generous subsidies, essentially pays for the rioting Toldot Aharon members of the Eda Haredim community as they perpetuate their own forms of hatred and, ultimately, disloyalty to the state. In just this month alone, they have protested, with the same stone-throwing intensity, the installation of a municipal parking lot near Jerusalem’s tourist-heavy Old City that would remain open on the Sabbath; in late...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Enemies of the State | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...sense that they have repeatedly opposed Israel’s right to administer its laws in its own land with a startling amount of violence, the Toldot Aharon rioters are hardly different from those Arabs who would characterize the state’s creation as a “catastrophe.” When it comes down to the question of “loyalty,” or, rather, lack thereof, one might think that the Israeli government would show each group the same iron fist...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Enemies of the State | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...that sense, if the Israeli authorities continue to allow the Toldot Aharon sect and other anti-Zionist groups the freedom to disrespect the state at will, it might make more sense to just put “al-naqba” back in the books...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Enemies of the State | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

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