[Jpost] The crisis that began three weeks ago with the murder of two border policeman near the Temple Mount did not ignite ‐ for the time being ‐ a third intifada.
Within a week, the country’s headlines shifted from the crisis on the Temple Mount to reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s once-trusted aide Ari Harow was about to turn state’s witness.
Within seven days, the palpable tension a jittery nation felt last week ‐ over whether the Friday Moslem prayers at al-Aksa Mosque would trigger a third intifada ‐ gave way to other news: Harow; Elor Azaria; the plight of the workers at Haifa Chemicals and at Teva; the Gay pride parade in Jerusalem; the Facebook feud between Netanyahu’s son, Yair, and Ariel Olmert, the son of Ehud Olmert, triggered by the younger Netanyahu’s alleged failure to pick up after his dog. |