Jerusalem is a unique city where things today look calm and quiet, while beneath the calm conflicting streams run strong and fast. This reality is witnessed by anyone one who tries to examine things in depth or has the opportunity to live in East Jerusalem and taste the social and political flavor of the ongoing occupation and conflict. In spite of the fact that in six months the city will commemorate the 50^th year of Israeli occupation, nothing has changed in the attitude of its population vis-à-vis the Israeli occupation and authorities. Five decades of occupation and intensive efforts to liquidate the Palestinian identity of the city have failed. Israeli discriminatory policy against the Arabs in the cityalongside the fanatic Jewish religious groups efforts to change the status of al-Aqsa Mosque/ al-Haram al-Sharif/ the Temple Mount is fueling the feelings of hatred and heating up the confrontation at the national-political level between the Israeli occupation forces a
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