Jerusalem on Edge in Row Over Contested Shrine
 

https://s.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/HD...09b3d226ece4fbThis combustible city at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been edging toward a new conflagration, with politicians on both sides stoking religious fervor over an ancient Jerusalem shrine sacred to Muslims and Jews. After months of escalating violence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday made his clearest attempt yet to cool tempers, saying he won't allow changes to a long-standing ban on Jewish worship at the Muslim-run site, despite such demands from ultranationalists in his coalition. Netanyahu's reassurances to Muslims came just days after the religious feud over the Old City shrine, k**wn to Muslims as the **ble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, threatened to spin out of control.




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