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......Awad argues that Palestinians are no longer sure what they need to shake off first. “Is it the larger occupation, the individual miseries they endure from the settlers and army, or the Palestinian leaders, who have achieved so little for them?”

Jerusalem-based analyst Jeff Halper points to the Palestinians’ mounting hopelessness, describing current events as a kind of “lashing out”. “Palestinians see no political process. They are being locked into their prison cells. They feel they have nothing to lose.”

Until now, the Palestinian Authority (PA), which is committed to enforcing security in the islands of West Bank territory it ostensibly controls, has mostly succeeded in preventing the protests from spreading to the Palestinian cities.

But the PA’s ability to contain these frustrations are in doubt, observes Halper, given that they already suffer from a massive credibility problem among Palestinians.

http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2015-10-06/netanyahu-better-not-disturb-the-status-quo/

Israel, Mahmoud Abbas join forces against Palestinian protests

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has called on Palestinians to avoid an “escalation” with Israel in statements confirming that – for now – he will continue his role as a subcontractor of the occupation.

“We do not want a military or security escalation between us and them,” Abbas told a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee in Ramallah on Tuesday.

“All of our instructions to our security agencies, organizations, youth and people are that we do not want escalation, but we want to defend ourselves,” Abbas said.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-mahmoud-abbas-join-forces-against-palestinian-protests

Stupidity of force in the face of resistance

What is occurring now in occupied Palestine – the West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza Strip – reiterates the equation of the “dumb” political mind behind the racial and cultural status of Israel's colonial control. This equation, grounded in the idea that the “Arabs” understand only the language of force, adds that what is not understood with force will certainly be understood with yet more force.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/1051-stupidity-of-force-in-the-face-of-resistance

Palestinian struggle irrevocably altered

Is a new intifada breaking out? Palestinian commentators are united that regardless of the name, the Palestinian struggle has been irrevocably altered.
http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/aicoment/1052-palestinian-struggle-irrevocably-altered

This video shows Israeli undercover forces invading a hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus early on Sunday morning and kidnapping a Palestinian patient.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-israeli-gunmen-kidnap-patient-palestinian-hospital

270 Palestinians residents of Jerusalem have been arrested by Israel in the past 21 days. Of these, 125 are Palestinian minors.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1055-270-jerusalemites-arrested-in-21-days

With attention focused on Jerusalem, Israeli forces continue their attacks on the southern West Bank district of Hebron.

http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/news/1057-collective-punishment-in-hebron

NY Times Botches Reporting on Israeli Police Execution

Yesterday, http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/10/05/jerusalem-descends-into-blood-lust/ I reported on the police execution of East Jerusalem Palestinian teenager, Fadi Alloun, outside the Old City. I noted the false reporting of the Jerusalem Post which stated that the police saw him “holding a knife” and “neutralized” him. There has been no supporting reporting in the Israeli media confirming this.

Now the international newspaper of record, the NY Times, gets in on the act. In Diaa Hadid’s report tonight, instead of focusing on his murder, she focuses on a supposed disagreement between villages and political factions about where he should be buried. The title of her story: Dispute Over a Burial Reveals Palestinian Divisions. Instead of focusing on the real news story of the video showing a flagrant execution, she invents a dispute purporting to show the Palestinian national movement in disarray.

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/10/05/ny-times-botches-reporting-on-israeli-police-execution/

Shabak Arrests 20 Year-Old Israeli Palestinian for Facebook Posts
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/10/07/shabak-arrests-20-year-old-israeli-palestinian-for-facebook-posts/

Jerusalem Descends into Blood Lust

Israel is not a normal country. It is not a western country. It is not a democratic country. It is a country seeped in blood. A country where the hounds bay for fresh blood. The blood of Israeli Jews and Palestinians. Yesterday and the day before it was the blood of four Jewish settlers murdered in the Occupied Palestine. A couple driving their car through the West Bank were shot to death and two rabbis associated with ethnic cleansing group, Ateret Cohanim, were stabbed to death there. Today, it is the blood of a Palestinian teenager, Fadi Alloun, hunted like a dog by an Israeli mob who suspected him of stabbing a Jewish settler teen, who’d been attacked near the Old City in Occupied East Jerusalem. The stabbing happened in the Musrara neighborhood and the stabbing happened near the Damascus Gate, which are in the same general vicinity.

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/10/05/jerusalem-descends-into-blood-lust/