If the Israeli election on March 17 produces a government that makes real progress toward creating a Palestinian state, the tensions might be lowered. The resulting situation is combustible - but it is still possible to turn down the temperature of this conflict. Aggressive behavior by each side is also spurring further violence from the other, making the conflict self-sustaining. It lacks a structured organization: While established resistance groups have stirred the pot, their weakness has left the onus for action largely on self-starting individuals and small groups. It is mostly a media-driven intifada of “lone wolf” attacks, spontaneous protests, and angry demonstrations. Yet the conflict this time is different, too. Like the prior intifada, or uprising, that began in 2000, this one is driven by the radicalization of Palestinian public opinion following a breakdown in the peace process and deepening conflict, making resistance appear the only remaining option to improve Palestine’s grim conditions. While Israel’s upcoming election (and Benjamin Netanyahu’s bluster) has dominated overseas headlines, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has heated up again. They form part of the greatest upsurge of Palestinian protest in over a decade. These are just some of the Palestinian-Israeli clashes reported by local media - and largely ignored by the international press.
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Rocks hurled by young Palestinians smashed windows of Jewish-owned cars in Abu Tor, a Jerusalem neighborhood nestled between the Jewish west and Arab east, and damaged a tram.
Jewish gravestones were found desecrated on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. A West Bank teenager armed with a knife was caught by police at a border crossing, and told them he planned a stabbing attack in Israel.
Shots were fired into an Israeli home in the West Bank settlement of Shomron, and at an army jeep near Nablus. In the first week of March alone, two young Palestinian men were shot as they fought against a raid by Israeli soldiers in Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem. If you follow the news, you’ve probably heard about the young Palestinian man who rammed his car into four Israeli policewomen at a Jerusalem tram stop on March 6, then hacked a passerby with a cleaver.īut here are some other stories you probably haven’t heard.
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