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Jerusalem Unrest Exposes the Brittleness of Israeli Sovereignty over Palestinians
While Israeli leaders may think their subjugation of Palestinians is sustainable, the unrest in Jerusalem and its escalation beyond the city limits shows it is not.
In December 2017, Donald Trump lent American recognition to Israel’s claims of exclusive sovereignty over Jerusalem.
- Omar H. Rahman
- The National Interest
It was a high-point in a decades-long effort by Israel, beginning in 1967, to make the city its “undivided, eternal capital.”
Yet for the 40 percent of the city’s residents who are Palestinian, and who have been crushed under the weight of that enterprise, there is only frustration with the denial and dispossession that…