"We offer you our soul and our blood, al-Aqsa!"
The outcry from the Palestinians in Jerusalem, once again rekindled, induces the misleading feeling that the conflict boils down to its religious dimension.
The superposition of Jewish and Muslim holy places on the same Esplanade, which some call Noble Sanctuary and others the Temple Mount, is certainly one of its sources and its main fuel.
But the battle for Jerusalem is also eminently political.
By choosing, at the end of 2017, to recognize Israeli sovereignty there, Donald Trump no doubt hoped to remove Jerusalem's status once and for all from the field of future negotiations.
Through their mobilization, its Arab inhabitants today clearly express their refusal to allow themselves to be dispossessed.
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Arab disputes around the Mosques esplanade in Jerusalem
Conquered in June 1967 by the Israeli army and annexed in the process, the eastern part of the city has since been regularly at the heart of outbreaks of violence.
In October 1990, the installation of a first
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