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Alas, Palestinian popular revolts didn’t get Friend’d on Facebook

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When everything is unpacked, when Mubarak is gone, when the official lies are finally abandoned, we will have to confront the sources of tyranny in Palestine, and see the American/Israeli hand in it. How interesting that step by step, everyone is approaching the Angry Arab’s analysis. Amira Hass in Haaretz:

Both in Gaza and the West Bank, the Palestinian authorities have already proven their excellent ability to suppress demonstrations. Is this what is preventing Palestinians from expressing solidarity with their Arab brethren, who for years were inspired by the scenes of the Palestinian intifada?

The fear that the protests will be suppressed is not the central reason, said a friend who is older than the young people who sought to demonstrate in Ramallah and Gaza.

“We instigated two intifadas and look what came of them – the situation only got worse,” he told me. “The first brought us the Palestinian Authority and then the expansion of the settlements; the second – destruction, Israeli repression that is worse than before, and the Hamas regime. People are depressed. They don’t see any point in protests. The hope that the dictatorship of occupation would fall if we took to the streets – like in Tunisia and Egypt – has evaporated.”

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