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How to Preserve the Fragile Calm at Jerusalem’s Holy Esplanade
How to Preserve the Fragile Calm at Jerusalem’s Holy Esplanade
Table of Contents
  1. Overview
Realigning European Policy toward Palestine with Ground Realities
Realigning European Policy toward Palestine with Ground Realities
Table of Contents
  1. Executive Summary
  2. Introduction
  3. The PA’s Political Crisis: A European Conundrum
    1. Discomfort with the PA’s Authoritarian Drift
    2. Stability or Better Governance?
    3. Fear of a Pandora’s Box Effect
    4. What PA Leaders Say
  4. A No-contact or a No-action Policy?
    1. The Palestinian Election Conundrum
    2. The No-contact Policy: A Capital Taboo
    3. What Hamas Leaders Say
  5. De Jure vs. De Facto Annexation: Confronting the Two-State Solution’s Feasibility
    1. No to De Jure Annexation
    2. Trying to Compensate with Aid
    3. Dialling Back Europe’s Ambition
    4. Preserving the Illusion of a Status Quo
  6. An Alternative Path
  7. Conclusion
  8. Appendix A: Map of Israel/Palestine
The Dome of the Rock is seen as people stand at the entrance to the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, 26 October 2015. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
The Dome of the Rock is seen as people stand at the entrance to the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, 26 October 2015. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Briefing 48 / Middle East & North Africa

How to Preserve the Fragile Calm at Jerusalem’s Holy Esplanade

A deceptive calm on Jerusalem’s Holy Esplanade is unlikely to hold under pressure from the ongoing “third intifada”, widespread dissatisfaction among Palestinian youth and growing Jewish Temple activism. Bolstering the 1967 Status Quo arrangement remains crucial, but immediate attention must be on maintaining more recent understandings on access to the Esplanade as the religious holiday season begins.

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