10/7/2015 Why be afraid of an intifada? - Nada Elia Middle East Eye

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/why-be-afraid-intifada-152825522?can_id=ca7b67f7d7a78f8a5909daa8962bdccf&source=email-what-were-reading-despair-among-palestinian-youth-stoking-unrest&email_referrer=what-were-reading-despair-among-palestinian-youth-stoking-unrest&email_subject=what-were-reading-despair-among-palestinian-youth-stoking-unrest

…Intifadas are good. They reveal to the world that Palestinians have not, will not, acquiesce to their oppression. The third intifada must be against the ongoing occupation as undertaken by the Israeli forces as well as their sub-contractor, the Palestinian Authority. Only then will the farce of Peace Accords and Road Maps be finally tossed into the trash heap of history, where it belongs. 

An escalation in Israeli violence, both "state violence" and "state-facilitated settler violence," along with an escalation in angry Palestinian resistance - because there is always resistance, but it changes qualitatively, in response to escalating Israeli violence - do not necessarily make for a Third Intifada. Yet the right mix of elements are there, the climate is ripe, and an intifada may indeed be brewing. The hope - not fear - is that this time, it will be against both Israel and all involved in the farce that is the "peace talks". It is time for action.

 

Posted by Judith Ferster, AIME member

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