Fear Of Deadly ‘Religious War’ Between Jews And Muslims Raised After Synagogue Attack -- Washington Post
JERUSALEM —Israelis and Palestinians expressed fear Wednesday that their decades-old conflict was moving beyond the traditional nationalist struggle between two peoples fighting for their homelands and spiraling into a raw and far-reaching religious confrontation between Jews and Muslims.
The threat — perhaps more accurately the dread — of an incipient but deadly “religious war” was expressed by Muslim clerics, Christian leaders and Jewish Israelis one day after a pair of Palestinian assailants, wielding meat cleavers and a gun, killed five Israelis, including a prominent American Israeli rabbi, in a Jerusalem synagogue.
“All of us are scared that there will be a religious war, that extremists from both sides will start fighting each other,” said Oded Wiener, an Israeli Jew from the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land.
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More News On Growing Fears Of A Third Intifada
After the Israel Synagogue Massacre: A New Intifada? -- Michael Tomasky, Daily Beast
Divided Jerusalem: Attacks put holy city on edge -- Bloomberg Businessweek/AP
Israeli Forces Demolish Home of Palestinian Who Used a Car to Kill 2 -- NYT
Israeli demolition of Palestinian home follows synagogue attack -- L.A. Times
Israel promises tough measures to stop wave of attacks in Jerusalem -- McClatchy News
Attack could signal intifada, Israeli journalist says -- Charles E. Ramirez, The Detroit News
A Path to Defusing Tensions in Jerusalem -- Dennis Ross, WSJ
Is It Too Late to Defuse a Third Intifada? -- Lorenzo Kamel, Haaretz
Israeli and Palestinian leaders know what they need to do to stop a ‘third intifada’ -- Washington Post editorial
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