The East Jerusalem powder keg

“Now it’s quiet, but it’s only an illusion of calm, which is the most dangerous kind,” says Daoud Siam, a resident of the East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Silwan. According to him, if the authorities and government do not provide long-term solutions to East Jerusalem, the chance of escalation is high.

“Our children live in the bottom of the barrel. They don’t have a ‘certificate of honesty’ (a police document required for job application in some workplaces) because they were arrested for (throwing) stones. Is there a boy in East Jerusalem who wasn’t arrested over stones?”

 

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