Writing on “Five Decades of Subjection and Marginalization” of Palestinians in Jerusalem in the previous issue of Jerusalem Quarterly (62), historian and Jerusalemite Nazmi Jubeh warned of increasing Israeli control over access to the al-Aqsa/Dome of the Rock mosque compound – the Haram al-Sharif or Noble Sanctuary – including the pattern of provocative “visits” by Israeli right-wing activists and politicians, accompanied by police and border guards. The Noble Sanctuary is “one of the last remaining Palestinian strongholds in Jerusalem and the embodiment of many religious and national symbols.” At present, Jubeh presciently added, it is a “powder keg.”