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NY Times Magazine Cover: ‘If There Is a Third Intifada, We Want to Be The Ones Who Started It’

Mar. 19, 2013 6:30pm Tiffany Gabbay

Ahead of President Obama’s visit to Israel, New York Times columnist Ben Ehrenreich has introduced readers to the Palestinian settlement of Nabi Saleh, whose some 500 residents are fairly united in their resistance against Israel. They also mostly share the same last name from being either related by either blood or marriage. The people of Nabi Saleh, who are allegedly subjected to consistent injustices perpetrated against them by their occupiers, the Israelis, stated that if there is going to be a third intifada, they “want to be the ones who started it.”

Ehrenreich paints a sympathetic picture of Nabi Saleh and describes its residents in effusive, flowery terms. He lionizes Palestinian martyrs’ perceived nobility and lays the groundwork for Nabi Saleh’s “third intifada” against Israel, writing:

That elite lives comfortably within the so-called “Ramallah bubble”: the bright and relatively carefree world of cafes, NGO salaries and imported goods that characterize life in the West Bank’s provisional capital. During the day, the clothing shops and fast-food franchises are filled. New high-rises are going up everywhere. “I didn’t lose my sister and my cousin and part of my life,” Bassem said, “for the sons of the ministers” to drive expensive cars.Worse than any corruption, though, was the apparent normalcy. Settlements are visible on the neighboring hilltops, but there are no checkpoints inside Ramallah. The I.D.F. only occasionally enters the city, and usually only at night. Few Palestinians still work inside Israel, and not many can scrape a living from the fields. For the thousands of waiters, clerks, engineers, warehouse workers, mechanics and bureaucrats who spend their days in the city and return to their villages every evening, Ramallah — which has a full-time population of less than 100,000 — holds out the possibility of forgetting the occupation and pursuing a career, saving up for a car, sending the children to college.

In yet another excerpt of the 10-electronic-page long article, Ehrenreich explains how just about everyone he spoke with in the settlement who was old enough to remember, all maintain that “conditions for Palestinians are far worse now than they were before the first intifada.”

“The checkpoints, the raids, the permit system, add up to more daily humiliation than Palestinians have ever faced. The number of Israeli settlers living in the West Bank has more than tripled since the Oslo Accords. Assaults on Palestinians by settlers are so common that they rarely made the news.”

To resolve this allegedly “far worse scenario,” activists from Nabi Saleh have banded together to form “what is known as the ‘popular resistance,’ a loosely coordinated effort that has maintained what has arguably been the only form of active and organized resistance to the Israeli presence in the West Bank since the end of the second intifada in 2005.”

One of the residents claimed that their goal is to demonstrate peacefully, without taking up arms in the hope of becoming a model of resistance for the entire West Bank. He followed it up by saying: “If there is a third intifada,” he said, “we want to be the ones who started it.”

Yet the NY Times author also writes of other activists who have engaged in physical clashes with Israeli military and has painted an image of life for residents of Nabi Saleh as increasingly desperate:

“But the checkpoints, the settlements and the soldiers are waiting just outside town, and the illusion of normalcy made Nabi Saleh’s task more difficult,” Ehrenreich writes.

“If Palestinians believed they could live better by playing along, who would bother to fight?”

[Bold emphasis added by TheBlaze]

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Comments (41)

AUsername
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 4:00am
If they care so much about those worthless caveman lets give them a one way ticket over there. Stupid Saudi Arabian and Israeli influence over media. let those two fight each other out and enjoy some popcorn.

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dmerwin
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 12:57am
And I’d be just as happy to be the one who ended it for you.

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marinedad3
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 11:20pm
USAREALIST:
The true test of who is causing the problem for the Palestinians is this: Most of the Palestinians are Muslim, some are Christian. If the Israeli government were the problem than they would be treating Muslims and Christians in other parts of Israel poorly also, they are not. Israel is referred to as a “Jewish State” yet Muslims, Christians and even Atheists in other parts of the country are endowed with the privileges , rights and responsibilities of FULL CITIZENSHIP, a privilege not extended to Christians , Jews and athieists in Muslim countries. The problems and hardships that are being faced by the Palestinian people are caused by their leadership and the hate they teach!

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bjornskis
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 9:47pm
with all our money that flows into the Palestinians government hands every year that place should look like a county club. So where does all that money go to?

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- ugottabekidding
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 10:11pm
  That is a very good question.
  Ask Arafat. oops dead
  Anybody else know where all the money goes?
  
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- edcoil
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 10:34pm
  Arafat died with a private wealth of 800 million and never had a job. All American tax dollars.
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 9:02pm
The hate between the two peoples (Israeli vs. Muslims) is so great there will never be pure peace in that area. The muslims are screaming about harsh conditions on the border. They say that they are treated badly in dealings with Isreali soldiers, they are checked thoroughly at border crossings, they feel like they are imprisoned and they do not have rights. The reason for all of this is that they were crossing the border in earlier times and bombing buses, cafes, and movie theaters. They caused their own misery. Israel is not like the US. Here, muslims bombed two main buildings with airplanes and killed almost 3000 Americans and what did the geniuses in Washington D.C. do? They made the TSA organization which checks every AMerican at an airport and treats them like criminals….but if a Muslim woman wearing a Hi-jab comes through the gates, they only can check her above the waist. America is led by idiots.

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- buzzkill59
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 10:15pm
  The Israelis don’t hate the Palestinians.They would gladly live side by side in peace with them.The Palestinians(and the rest of the Muslims for that matter) do….hate the Israelis.Until the Palestinians embrace peace and stop bombing,shooting,kidnapping,and raping Jews and other “Infidels” then Israel and all other civilized peoples will remain frustrated and peace will be only a dream!
  
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zoro51
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 8:27pm
more murdering muslums crap.. ALL of the land of isreal BELONGS TO ISREAL not ishmeal.. PERIOD.. no ifs ands or BUTS.. BUT MURDERING MUSLUMS dont care they are in a man made cult wiht man made rules that THEY THEM SELVES DO NOT FOLLOW but foist on to others..then they KILL them.. the intifada will not take place.. MURDERING MUSLMS shall soon be bit hard like pharo was long ago.. see you go agaisnt isreal you go against the TRUE REAL GOD not the stone idol muslums worship…

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Knightnblu
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:49pm
The problem in the Middle East is hatred. It is a hatred that is promoted by the Palestinians and fostered by the Western media who sympathize with them. Their hatred runs so deep that it has become institutionalized within their society. No longer do they see Jews and men and women, but as pigs and apes. They indoctrinate their children with hatred and they move them to become Shaheed. How does Israel respond?

With love. They treat their wounded and sick, do their best not to kill innocents, yield up taken territories as an olive branch, and offer political solutions to end the strife. The Palestinians will have none of it and neither will the Western media. They will accept the medical assistance and territory and any other offer of aid that Israel will offer, but they will do nothing to stem the hatred that burns in their hearts.

The question to ask is why does the Western media foster this hatred of Israel? They don’t have a dog in this fight or do they? These are questions that will likely yield uncomfortable answers.

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skippy6
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:46pm
You may start it but I doubt you will come out of it….The so called Palestine will be a clean slate…

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termyt
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:37pm
Perhaps if other Arab nations actually helped Palestinians instead of hand wringing about how bad they have it,the situation would improve. Palestinians have lived in Jordan for generations – most of them have lived nowhere else but Jordan, but they are still refugees and denied Jordan citizenship.

The fact is they are trapped. They cannot leave the West Bank, no one else in the world will have them, least of all their Arab “brothers.”

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skippy6
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:31pm
I don’t know why, but I just thought of this song…..Love the bridge of this song!!!

I’m gonna take you down… down down down…. so don’t you fool around….I’m gonna pull it, pull it, pull the trigger….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCnZ5qLqZgE

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Vision Harry
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:28pm
Hey camel jockeys, A towel is not a hat.

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momrules
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:25pm
There is nothing that will appease these people. Theirs will always be a society that blames Israel for everything wrong in their life. Peace could have been theirs decades ago had they not hated Israel more than they hate their way of life.

Yes, war is coming to them again. A war that they choose, a war that they will start, but a war that God’s Israel will win again.

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- barber2
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 8:54pm
  Agree. The dysfunctional always blame others which is why they never advance. Our Democrat radicals are trying to destroy America by playing on that same dysfunction. Blame. Target. Alinsky. Apparently won them an election – though I don’t trust the ” fairness and legality ” of those election results.
  
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thibx
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:23pm
in the old testament God would send israel into places and told them to kill them all form the oldest to the youngest. God had to do that to get rid of the evil. if he had left even one young one the evil would have contuined. that’s the way i am beginning to feel about the muslims. kill them all so the evil will not continue.

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FISH_BONE
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:22pm
I’m sure these people are very happy and content with the way they have decided to live their lives.

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crystalsky
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:53pm
By the way don’t forget the innocence of 9 11 2001 9 11 2012 and the ft. hood martyers that that muslim creep slaughtered even the woman who was going to have a baby. he did not care and our navy seals and military shall I go on. Stick that up your pipe and smoke it baby!!!!!!!!!

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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:51pm
Yes will you start your war already you candy@ss freaks and hopefully Israel will give the world it’s final solution to the Palestinian infection.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:03pm
  I expect that when the third intefada begins that Obama will invoke the UN ‘Right to Protect’ and invade with US troops to ‘liberate the Palestinians from the Israeli oppressors.’
  
  War is coming in full measure, and Obama will be against Israel.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:09pm
  Sadly I think you’re right because we all know what Barry thinks of Israeli’s.
  
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- USAREALIST
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 8:09pm
  You must have been a Hitler fan… Same mindset. Hope this happens to YOUR FAMILY one day. God willing YOUR in cuffs while they drag your mom by the **** for not willing to leave her house for a stranger to take.
  
  God willing you feel the pain the Zionist have inflicted on these Palestinians. They are humans just like the rest of us.
  
  Believe me when I say KARMA is right around the corner.
  
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crystalsky
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:50pm
Some1 who is an artist should paint pictures or show the real 1′s of all the martyed Christians that were done here recently by morsi and his bunch who put them on crucifixes. They also were martyed and killed by the savages.

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BlackCrow
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:47pm
Kill them all and let Allah sort them out.

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- USAREALIST
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 8:19pm
  May all you wish upon others come back to you and your family.
  
  God Bless.
  
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DougHuffman
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:43pm
Nuke’em into the Ninteenth Century. God will sort the good from the bad and the ugly from the beautiful. God Bless Bitter Clingers. MOLON LABE Lord of Lies putz

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- USAREALIST
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 8:11pm
  You sir are arrogant and ignorant. I hope you get nuked.
  
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banjarmon
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:43pm
If palestinians and muslims would not teach hate to their kids then peace could be achieved!! But as long as there are muslims that peace will never happen

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 7:04pm
  At this point, BANJA, it’s worse than that.
  The Israelis have been conditioned to fear random bombings, etc, for multiple generations, now.
  THAT distrust will take multiple generations to dissolve, regardless of the behavior of Palestinians.
  
  It’s so remote, i doubt Vegas would even post odds on it.
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:43pm
“….their goal is to demonstrate peacefully, without taking up arms…”

Seems if that’s their goal, they’d pick a different word to describe it. Although Intifada literally translates to “shaking off”, it is popularly translated as “uprising”, “resistance”, or “rebellion”….

Reminds me of “Jihad” and that popular word’s- supposed- myriad of meanings.

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RIDEMODELS
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:38pm
Their own religion holds them back, the tight hold on women rights and the fact that women cannot simply drive a car means that they cannot be a happy society(hell hath no fear like a woman scorn)…….and meanwhile here in our society women are now CEO’s of large corporations and then there is Oprah who made millions and millions off of those “Evil” corporations….That is where they are largely different from the US and our Christian beliefs that are tied to Israel……Lets not forget teachers in Israel carry guns to school.

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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:37pm
All muslims support jihad, Jiihad is terrorism, Islam is Jihad.

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WarMunger_Al
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:37pm
of course they ignore the reason for the checkpoints in the first place. If the idiot palestinians would quit bombing israeli buses, cafes, and discos, there would not be a need for check points.

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- USAREALIST
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 8:16pm
  What planet are you on? Have you ever been to Palestine? If not, keep shut.
  
  The reason for the check points is to divide and conquer. They are testing it there to bring it down west and use on YOU.
  
  Karma is a bitch.
  
  When they (Zionist) have your whole family in chains and kill them for no reason. Then we will see if it is worth taking out as many people possible knowing your probably next and your body is the only weapon you have for defense.
  
  Good luck in life for you are lost and misled.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 8:50pm
  USA: May you be healed.
  
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ImChiquita
Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:34pm
What was part of God’s covenant with Abraham?

I will honor those who honor you – and destroy those who attempt to destroy you.

I guess the Palestinians haven’t read the Books of Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, or Revelation, because there’s a storm comin’ – and it doesn’t bode well for the Palestinians.

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 19, 2013 at 6:40pm
  A protege wants what is in his mentors heart, a parasite wants what is in his hand.
  
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