The terror attack in which two Israelis were killed in Jerusalem Sunday morning could be a defining moment that heralds the return of the rifle as a symbol of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Some might say that there was nothing new in this attack, in which Jerusalem resident Levana Malihi, 60, and police officer First Sergeant Yosef Kirma, 29, were shot dead in a shooting spree carried out by a 39-year-old Palestinian from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.

There have been other deadly attacks in exactly the same spot in northern Jerusalem in recent years. But the weapons used in those attacks were cars, tractors and knives. This time, a sense emerges from Palestinian media and social networks that the attack is being presented as a template for future actions in the so-called “Al-Quds Intifada.”

The gunman was linked to a group that hassles non-Muslim visitors to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and had already been convicted of attacking police officers who tried to bar his access to the flash-point holy site.

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