Although the first Fridays of the month of Ramadan passed relatively quietly, that does not mean anything about the rest of the holiday. Israel is now focused on the return of the hostages, but this tension may return as early as this Friday, and may also increase in the coming weeks. It doesn't seem like Hamas has abandoned its plan to set the entire Middle East on fire on the pretext of saving al-Aqsa.
The use of religious symbols is not new in the Jewish-Arab conflict. In the 1920s, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini used the incident at the Western Wall to claim that the Jews wanted to take over the Temple Mount and build their own temple. Its purpose was to mobilize the entire Muslim world for the struggle of the Palestinians in the name of religious values. Nothing has changed in 100 years.
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