27.02.2013                      17.Adar. 5773

Meinung:

Why hasn't a third intifada broken out yet?

Palestinians have not enjoyed the quiet Israelis have experienced the past three months, but a lack of confidence in their leaders keeps most of them home.

The question that has been raised frequently over the last few days – Do the clashes this week portend a third intifada? – is being asked from a narrow Israeli, military perspective. It is a perspective that accepts Israeli control over the Palestinians as the natural order of things, an order the Palestinians are disturbing. We should be flipping the question on its head: How is it that the third intifada has yet to erupt?….