Bibi's Malfunction
Palestinian Affairs: Will the Palestinians rise up too?
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
11/03/2011
If they do, they will be shooting in all directions.
Will the popular uprisings that brought down Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak, and which are threatening to topple other Arab dictators, arrive one day in the Palestinian territories? This is the question that many Palestinians have been asking in wake of the antigovernment tsunami sweeping the Arab world in recent weeks.
When and if the Palestinians revolt, they will be shooting in all directions: against Fatah, Hamas, Israel, the UN, the US and many Western powers and Arab regimes that allegedly turned their backs on them all these years.
Signs of the impending intifada are already evident on a number of Facebook campaigns launched by disgruntled Palestinian youths.
“F... Hamas. F... Israel. F... Fatah. F...UNRWA. F... USA!” shouted a posting by one of the youth groups in the Gaza Strip.
“We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community. We want to scream and break this wall of silence, injustice and indifference like the Israeli F-16s breaking the wall of sound.”
Inspired by the uprisings in the Arab world, young Palestinian men and women are now using the Internet to stage similar campaigns in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
One group wants to launch an intifada against Israel, while a second wants to organize a mass protest next week to demand that Hamas and Fatah end their power struggle.
Even Hamas and Fatah have discovered the power of Facebook. Each one of the two rival parties has in recent weeks been inciting Palestinians to revolt against the other.
Fatah and Hamas are obviously not happy with the Facebook campaigns that are urging Palestinians to take to the streets to achieve their goals.
So with the streets of the PA getting ready to go up in flames in the third intifada, why is Bibi going forward with a new so called peace plan.
He is going against the majority of his party and common sense.
What is Bibi's major malfunction, is he stupid, driven by ego or bought off?
