THE latest events at Al-Aqsa Mosque reflect the growing impunity with which extremist Israeli settlers operate. Under police escort, a group entered the compound and staged a nationalist display, raising Israeli flags near the Dome of the Rock and singing the Israeli national anthem. Al-Aqsa sits at the heart of a long-standing arrangement intended to preserve peace at a location sacred to multiple faiths. Actions that interfere with those understandings carry consequences beyond the mosque’s walls. The incident comes amid........

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