The Third Intifada Is Inevitable -- Nathan Thrall, New York Times
EARLIER this month, at a private meeting with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his security advisers, a group of Middle East experts and former intelligence officers warned that a third Palestinian intifada was imminent. The immediate catalyst, they said, could be another mosque vandalized by Jewish settlers, like the one burned on Tuesday, or the construction of new settlement housing. Whatever the fuse, the underlying source of ferment in the West Bank is a consensus that the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, has reached a dead end.
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My Comment: I have trouble seeing another uprising succeeding. The first two intifadas were successful because of the coverage of the international media .... and reaction in foreign capitals. But with most (if not all) of the international media now focused on the Arab spring and on the Syrian civil war .... kids throwing rocks at tanks in the West Bank is not going to attract the same level of coverage or interest or interest in foreign capitals.
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