NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem on the worst flareup of civil violence between Palestinians and Israelis since the intifada of the 1980s. That violence led to the start of the peace process that has now stalled in the wake of the election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Today's riots, which ended with armed Palestinian policemen exchanging gunfire with Israeli army troops for the first time ever, came in the wake of Netanyahu's government opening a controversial tunnel next to Islamic holy places in Jerusalem.
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