IsraelвЂ™s newfound friendliness with powerful neighbors like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates has actually lessened the international pressure to make concessions to the Palestinians, whose own politics are static and divided. Israeli politics are so sclerotic that it required four elections in two years to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu, an unpopular prime minister facing corruption charges, with a coalition that, despite the historic presence of an Arab party, is unlikely to significantly alter the countryвЂ™s approach to Palestinian issues. But at no recent time has there seemed less of a chance that Israelis and Palestinians will reach a peace agreement that might establish a Palestinian state on land presently occupied or annexed by Israel. There have been weekly protests against the Sheikh Jarrah evictions for years, and the broader conflict is of course much older than that. Protests in the neighborhood spread to the nearby Temple Mount, a holy site for both Jews and Muslims, where riot police fired rubber bullets and Arab protesters threw stones following Friday prayers. IsraelвЂ™s government characterized the issue as a mere вЂњreal estate dispute,вЂќ which was true in a narrow sense but elided the winding history of the homesвЂ™ ownership - which changed hands as the land beneath them did over the course of two wars - as well as the Jewish groupвЂ™s frank goal of altering East JerusalemвЂ™s demographics to secure it permanently for Israel. A longstanding effort by a right-wing Jewish group to assume ownership of Palestinian homes in Sheikh Jarrah, an East Jerusalem neighborhood, was coming to a head. Several of them first became friends while studying and working in a sixth city, Jerusalem, the capital of the land that both the Torah and IsraelвЂ™s declaration of independence deem the place for вЂњthe ingathering of the exiles.вЂќ Early this year, around 20 rabbinical and cantorial students started a WhatsApp thread they eventually named вЂњRad Future Clergy.вЂќ Among them, they attended rabbinical schools in five different U.S.

It began, as so much these days does, with a group chat.

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