Coming soon: A third intifada?

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Al Jazeera

Coming soon: A third intifada?

Israel’s continued occupation and denial of rights to Palestinians cannot persist unchallenged

At the United Nations General Assembly last week, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu focused his fears on an external threat from Iran, the internal situation in Israel and Palestine started to boil over. The dramatic scene he painted during his speech served to deflect attention from his government’s decades-long military occupation policies in the Palestinian territories.

Talk of a third intifada pervades the media now as tensions rise between Israeli settlers in the West Bank and the indigenous Palestinian population. “Anyone claiming to be surprised that a third uprising is imminent has been burying their head in the sand for the last decade,” Israeli journalist Gideon Levy says.

Most of the world has turned a blind eye to what has been unfolding on the ground in the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem. These developments include ever-increasing house demolitions, arrests and imprisonment (especially of minors), expropriation of Palestinian land, Israeli settlement building and expansion and construction of an exclusive road network for Israeli settlers, construction of hundreds of miles of a separation barrier, curfews and collective punishment, the closure of Jerusalem and its holy sites to Palestinians, and outright murder of Palestinian civilians by both military forces and armed settlers.

It is instructive to remember these causes of the highly tense situation which Palestinians endure every day. Resisting the occupation and its oppressive policies is a natural reaction of a people who have long experienced such policies. In fact, this right of resistance is enshrined in United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/3246 of Nov. 29, 1974, which “Reaffirms the inalienable right of all peoples under colonial rule, foreign domination and alien subjugation to self-determination, freedom and independence” and “Reaffirms the legitimacy of the peoples’ struggle for liberation from colonial and foreign domination and alien subjugation by all available means, including armed struggle.”

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[guillaumeb]

1. If a non-violent solution is not possible, what is left for the Palestinians?

To continue suffering under an apartheid system where they will see their country stolen from under them with every illegal land theft?

to continue to see their children killed by a murderous military force that protects Israeli citizens who terrorize Palestinians while killing Palestinians for throwing rocks?

And all of this happens because the US subsidizes the State of Israel with billions every year while preventing (via veto) the UN from holding Israel accountable.

And the US media ignores this "inconvenient history", even as support for the Palestinians grows in the world community.

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2. Here is one of the only times I've seen major US media report

the most important fact of the conflict:

Clearly Israel supporters disagree here. The don't believe the natives have any rights.

[Mosby]

3. those maps are full of lies

They have been debunked many times.

And FYI, Jews are also natives, and for much, much longer.