Jiritaan

Opinion | Jerusalem’s lost mayoral mandate shows how factional rivalry surrenders power — a warning for Somalia’s leaders A boy holds a Palestinian flag on top of a mound of rubble in the central Gaza Strip. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images When Britain consolidated control over Jerusalem after World War I, the city’s future turned not only on imperial policy and Zionist immigration, but on a bitter rivalry inside Palestinian society. The struggle between the Husayni and Nashashibi families — two influential clans with distinct…