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July 25, 2017

The Deep Historical Irony of Palestinians Protesting Metal Detectors

In a roundabout way, they practically invented them.

Following its decision this month to install metal detectors at entrances to the Temple Mount, a decision forced by the murder of two Israeli policemen there, Israel has been rocked by Palestinian riots across East Jerusalem and the West Bank. As Walter Russell Mead and his staff at Via Meadia observe, there is a “deep historical irony” to this fact: Palestinians practically invented metal detectors. That is, Palestinian terrorism is responsible for the widespread appearance of metal detectors in Western society today:

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