Arabs under siege as Israel tightens grip on Holy City

What is at issue now is what has been at stake since Israel's foundation and before: how can two peoples' claim on a city as the centre of their national ambitions ever be reconciled? Since the 'uniting' of Jerusalem in the Six Day War of 1967, when Israeli troops overran Jordanian positions on the east side of the city, Palestinians have largely watched, furious but impotent, as Israeli construction in Arab East Jerusalem has proceeded apace. Israeli flags dotted around Palestinian quarters bear defiant testimony to Jewish insistence on a unified city and capital.