'Fatah officials warn of third Palestinian intifada'

A very good move for the PA. There has to be a peaceful aspect to any liberation movement just like the Civil Rights Movement here in the states, yet it was not an absolute passive movement and militancy had it's place then and has it's place today. This is due to fact that some people only understand force,as Israel illustrates. So what's good for the goose is as equally good for the...

It seems to me that the "second intifada" never ceased. So this call for an intifada is nothing more that a continuation of the same old intifada. Can anyone tell me when Intifada number 2 ended? Like we can say the exact date that WWII ended?

and weren't intended to be They were formed AFTER frequent attacks on the Yishuv, as self defense organizations All one has to do, and you should to, is to research when they were established, start with the Hebron riots and word your way forward Ask for help, and I'll gladly give you the necessary links You see, I did what you didn't, I looked for facts, while you type from ignorance

I suppose it will be peaceful, just a few thousand rockets onto Israelio civilians from Kiryat Shemona to Eilat; from Gaza and Hezbollahstan, after Israel hands the Golan to Syria, the West Bank to Fatah & Hamas, the Sheba Farms to Nasrallah, and East Jerusalem to The Organization of Islamic Countries or the UN.

Then I am the Queen of England! I doubt a non-violence movement ala MLK or Gandhi could last more than two days, if that, before Fatah allied forces start using firearms and bombs against Israelis. Maybe the Israelis should promise that if a third intifada turns violent that they will commence a non-violent second Nakba? I wonder what the reaction would be to that?

Welcome back,hope all is well. Happy holiday season to you and yours.

Neither you nor the Pals know,they do not want to hear. Does not stop you either.

"Fatah had made a strategic decision to declare a third intifada against Israel", Netanyahu?? Fatah wont even talk to him to hear what he has to say.

If you'll bother to check the facts, they were formed as self defense organizations AFTER repeated Arabs attacks against the Yishuv, which for the main part started with the attack on Tel Hai In fact, the Arabs created them, you got what you wished for

Actually, the problem begins with the Balfour Declaration, taken erronously by Zionists as carte blanche to drive out the Arab population and create a state for Jewish immigrants. Read Jabotinsky's "O zheleznoy stene (On the Iron Wall)," 1923, where he openly states that the natives will oppose colonisation with all their might. That is exactly what happened. And is still happening.

Is there no end to this stupid, Palestinian cult of martyrdom? The longer this stupid conflict goes on, the less that the Paletinians are going to get for their state. Think about that "Fatah officials" and stop trying to rattle your saber in an empty scabbard. Good luck!

Pray point to exactly where the legal FACTS are incorrect my friend. I do not think you will find it easy to substantiate your claims but looking forward to reading your legal analysis.

Dear friend, You are just presenting typical palestinian-arab propaganda.... one-sided, unbalanced.

I'm happily anticipating a Mexican intifada in Texas and an aborigine intifada in Australia. Israelis have a much stronger historical claim to Palestine than do the present day occupiers of Australia and Texas.

With peace out of the question by Prime Ministerial Fiat, with settlement expansion increasing drastically, and with Abbas destroyed, what else may be expected? Netanyahu chose Intifada. He seems to be provoking one. It worked for Sharon. A 'splendid little war' is guaranteed to unite the nation behind him.

Many people have been urging the Palestinians to follow the examples of Ghandi and Martin Luther King. The challenge hasn't been taken up. If they can change, they will make great progress in acheiving statehood. But for a culture whose greatest heros are the suicide-bomber martyrs, I don't think they'll be able to engage in this kind of protest. Furthermore, they will want credit for random acts of non-violence; and they will expect that the world ignore the acts of violence that will happen along the way. But, I wish them luck and peace.

..."the movement will not endorse an armed struggle or the use of firearms..." "...NOT ENDORSE"...Empty words... In practice, the non-use of arms would last, maybe half an hour...next the usual stones, and after that shootings from both sides... Then rockets from Lebanon and Gaza, and finally WAR on all fronts. ... All this, the result of not freezing a few house constructions...Is this difficult to anticipate?

Rocks and Molotov Cocktails are lethal weapons. The Arabs have never stopped their attacks

"Stern, Irgun, all used violence. Israel has been using it too" Those groups formed after 20 years of violence against Jews. Jews started FIGHTING BACK against Arab hostility. Yet, you never open your ignorant yap to criticize Arab violence against Jews. You want to go back to the 1930s? How about going back to 1920 when the massacres REALLY began.

Finally,the Palestinians have made it quite clear to the world that they had no intention of ever honoring any of the provisions of the Oslo accords. Now, no one can assert that the Oslo acords are any kind of guideline anymore. Does anyone recall Faisal Al-Husseini referring to the Oslo accords a a "Trohan Horse"? A third Nakba will permit Israel to take the gloves off and will inevitably lead to another Nakba.

"Great. And what is Israel going to do in return? Leave East J`sem? Nope. Pull back behind the Green Line? Nope. Compensate Pal refugees for homes and land stolen in 1948?" Give them a viable state by withdrawing to mutually agreed upon borders. Grow a brain, cummings. There is no reason the Palestinians are entitled to 100% of the territories given that the land was originally "stolen" by Jordan and every single Jew was ethnically cleansed in 1948. The land was only Jew-free for 19 years. Why are you so hell-bent against Jews living on lands which have had a Jewish presence for thousands of years? Why do you refer to the land as "stolen" by Jews? Have you no shame? No sense of history? No brain?

We want peace so much we will throw more molotov cocktails. We want tranquillity so much we will sacrifice more of our children. We want co-existence so intensely we are willing to turn the clock back even more. We despair of your insolent leaders so we are prepared to fight for our own decrepit ones. Fatah- who among your people honestly believe this crap?

The adoption of peaceful resistance will mean there is no need for a 2 state solution. The need to separate the populations comes from a pre-conceived notion (on parts of both sides) that Palestinian Arabs will enslave, dispossess, expel or massacre Jews if they lived together in a single state and gained democratic control of the state through demographics. If this changes, and the majority of Palestinians embrace the logic and principles of Ghandi and Dr. Martin Luther King, there should be a single state with citizenship, freedom of movement and residence and access to religious centers rather than 2 non-viable states that don't meet the aspirations of either side's people. The model in today's Lebanon is probably what a single state will look like (rather than Zimbabwe) since neither side will have a decisive demographic majority for decades to come.

IF the PA had actually acted in peace and promoted a state, it would have had one. Thats not what it wants and acts against it. *yawn* wake me up when you are serious, or go back to Amman and cry to your leaders.

Yeah, you're right; a stone here, a rocket there, a stabbing here a kidnapping there. Yup, Israel should just stand idly by while these peaceful Palestinians wave banners that say Jews are Nazis; produce tracts and tv shows that say there never was a Jewish presence in Jerusalem, spend countless hours figuring out how to delegitimize ALL of Israel and the UN and cry our from Mossques about DEath to Israel and Wipe it off the map. If all the Palestinians wanted was a State of their own, the could have had it yesterday, the day before, in 1947, in 1967, in 200i and still, tomorrow. If all they wanted, was a State.

personally, i don't think they are capable of a peaceful intifada, of protests without violence. they have indoctrinated their children in the ways of violence and they continue to pay the piper. it's hard to imagine they'll be able to change the mindset of their entire country so easily, but GOOD LUCK! i hope you are capable of more than just blowing yourselves up - i really do.

"Why don`t you get the fact that with violence you will never get anything. You are trying to get something for 60 years using violence, but it never helped!" Stern, Irgun, all used violence. Israel has been using it too. "First of all recognize Israel " There is no legal requirement that they or any one else recognize any state. "promiss us PEACE. this is the first step" Will Israel's first step be to stop acquiring Palestinian territory by force and illegal annexation?

You have a very Israel-centric platform Daniela: 'Promise peace forever and you will get your state without causing additional death with the third entifada'. Great. And what is Israel going to do in return? Leave East J'sem? Nope. Pull back behind the Green Line? Nope. Compensate Pal refugees for homes and land stolen in 1948? Nope,. Vacate the settlements? Nope. Share the water equitably? Nope. Let Palestine be a fully-fledged sovereign state? Nope. So what IS Israel offering exactly? Let Palestine have 60/70/80 percent of its lawful territory and keep the rest as illegal spoils, leave it as a collection of isolated islands, give them the status of a semi-autonomous colony. That's all that's on Israel's agenda. Too greedy by half, Israel, and not a remotely credible stance. Just shows you don't want a peaceful conclusion at all, because the Eretz Israel occupation plan needs another 60 years of work and associated conflict. Hence the 3rd intifada. You must face facts Daniela.

The world will see what israel is made off when they start killing innocent people again

Palis are learning from Israelis: the whole state is based upon violence. Only, Israelis are stronger. Non violent protest, if succesful, will prove their progression: the disciple could eventually overcome his master. I so wish Ghandi's spirit would enter this region...

....hopefully the IDF and the Israeli public will have learned something from then, and at least spare the lives of demonstrating Palestinian children and youths this time, even if they may throw a stone once in a while.

If these will be non-violent demonstrations for the right of Palestinian people to be citizens of their sovereign state, against expansion of settlements, for peace - I will come to support these demonstrations.

Everyday another threat. Violent, non-violent, UN recognition of statehood, dismantlement of the PA, resignation of Abbas. Beginning to sound like the little boy crying wolf When will the PA first learn to take care of it sewage problems. Oh, city services is not exactly what the PA had in mind when it talks about independence

Smart move. That's the way that the liberation struggle should continue. Military confrontation doesn't make sense anymore. Just look at the casualties ratio in recent Gaza war.

pretty stupid move unless, the Pals are ready to leave all of Israel. We can always hope. Even Obama recognizes them as a 'terrorists organization.' And they are.

has been nothing less than severe. Mubarak Awad, a Palestinian-American youth counselor in Palestine?s West Bank tried to organize nonviolent civil disobedience against the Israeli occupation and repression, the Israeli government deported him in 1988 back to the United States. He proceeded to establish the group, Non-violence International, but he is still banned from Israel. More recently Israel has been willing to shoot indiscriminately during anti-wall demos, against unarmed protestors. There have been a number of serious injuries and deaths as a result of trigger happy IDF.

the Palestinian mindset seems to shift towards a more reasonable conduct of resistance, at least among Fatah members and a good deal of their supporters. For long serious advocates of the Palestinian cause have called for non-violent resistance because since the onset of the conflict Arab military offensives, guerilla warfare and terrorism have resulted in defeat after defeat for their cause. Furthermore, Palestinians will have to come to terms with the need and rightfulness of a historical compromise which will see none of their demands, such as the Right of Return or Jerusalem as their capital, fulfilled. Hopefully the real interests of the Palestinian people, good governance, administrative and economic functionality, are finally about to prevail over the obstructive obsession with "blood and soil".

If it's gonna be without violence, it's a great way to express their opinions & feelings, against a government that doesn't want to listen to them

peace forever and you will get your state without causing additional death with the third entifada. Why don't you get the fact that with violence you will never get anything. You are trying to get something for 60 years using violence, but it never helped! Let's reach an agreement and end this conflit forever. First of all recognize Israel and promiss us PEACE. this is the first step.

...and the settlers, Tzahal, and expansionists will have lost Israel for the Jews.

An Intifada, without firearms and without armed struggle, will show, that the occupation no longer serves any purpose.This may then lead to a respected Palestinian state on friendly terms with Israel and the world.The proof is in the pudding. I don't think Pals can refrain from terror so easily.