Street battles: renewed fighting threatens Middle East peace process.(opening of tunnel near Jerusalem mosque spawns Palestinian-Israeli violence; includes related articles on Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasir Arafat)(Cover Story) From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | Date: October 21, 1996 | COPYRIGHT 1996 Weekly Reader Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

JERUSALEM, Israel--How do you heal a wound that has bled for a thousand years? For at least that amount of time Jews and Palestinian Arabs have been fighting each other over who rightfully owns the land now occupied mainly by Israel. Late last month fighting flared up again in Jerusalem and in other cities in and around Israel. Palestinians threw rocks at armed Israeli soldiers, who responded with gunfire. Pitched battles took place on Jerusalem streets. At one point, the Israeli a...