Palestinians, Israeli riot police clash over death of teenage stone thrower
May 15, 2011
JERUSALEM (AP) ― Masked Palestinians whirling slingshots clashed with Israeli riot police in two Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem on Saturday after the shooting death of a teenage stone thrower. It was a sign of rising tensions on the eve of Palestinian commemorations of their uprooting during Israel’s 1948 creation.The possibility of escalation comes at a critical time for U.S. Mideast policy. Pre