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Netanyahu's Tough Lesson This Week: When It Rains in the Middle East, It Pours
As long as Israel controls the Temple Mount, the prime minister must think twice, thrice, a hundred times, before making a move in the face of that powder keg
The political and security crisis of the past 10 days, which began with escalation around Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and continued with a serious incident at the Israeli Embassy in Jordan, was a kind of fast-forward rerun of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s two great traumas in his first term: the riots over the opening of the Western Wall tunnel in September 1996 and the assassination attempt on senior Hamas official Khaled Meshal in Amman a year later.
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