Intifada

Of Course, It is an Intifada: This is What You Must Know

When my book Searching Jenin was published soon after the Israeli massacre in the Jenin refugee camp in 2002, I was quizzed repeatedly by the media and many readers for conferring the word ‘massacre’ on what Israel has depicted as a legitimate battle against camp-based ‘terrorists’.
The interrogative questions were aimed at relocating the narrative from a discussion regarding possible war crimes into a technical dispute over the application of language. For them, the evidence of Israel’s violations of human rights mattered little.

Jerusalem Descends into Blood Lust

Image:Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy in Bethlehem afternoon Monday.
UDPATE: About twelve hours ago, a third Palestinian youth was murdered by Occupation forces.  This new killing happened near Tulkarm.  Ronnie Barkan reported to me there were a total of seven attempts to lynch Palestinians in the past 24 hours.