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...recent violence was set off when Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon, accompanied by several hundred armed police officers, made a visit during prayer time to the Noble Sanctuary and Dome of the Rock, the world's third most sacred site for Muslims...
...bombing or even a dramatic shooting by Hamas or other hard-liners would force Prime Minister Barak, in deep political peril at home, to respond harshly, which would in turn prompt the Palestinian leadership to respond in kind. And another stroll around the Temple Mount by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon or even more shootings of Palestinian civilians by anti-peace Israeli settlers in the West Bank could restart the cycle of violence from the other side. So, despite the cease-fire, a "final status" peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians may have moved from the back burner into...
...should be no surprise that it has been impossible to find an expression in ink that can solve the problem. For much of the past seven years, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have been creeping close to agreement on many issues, but not this one. When Israeli right-winger Ariel Sharon visited the site two weeks ago in a bid to boost his political support and reassert Israeli rights to the land, Arabs saw it as an act of such political arrogance that it could only trigger an outburst. In what Arabs call the "Aqsa intifadeh," the uprising of al-Aqsa...
...violence that has swept Israel and the occupied territories since the visit of Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount two weeks ago reignited yesterday after a brief period of respite. Two Israeli reserve soldiers seeking shelter in a Palestinian police station in the West Bank town of Ramallah were killed by a mob of Palestinians; in retaliation, Israeli helicopter gunships used rockets to destroy the police building, a security forces headquarters and a radio and television station the Israelis accuse of having incited violence...
Palestinian leaders say that a visit to Jerusalem's Temple Mount by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon precipitated the clashes, but Israel's government has alleged that the forces of Yassir Arafat, the president of the Palestinian Authority, used the visit as a pretext to attack Israelis and Jews...