Tablet doesn’t believe there was ever a First Intifadah. It has a piece about the Palestinian statehood bid precipitating another intifadah, by Israelis Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, which completely leaves out the nonviolent demonstrations Palestinians mounted against occupation. (h/t Joseph Dana):
After failing with wars (in 1948, 1967, 1973), suicide-bomb attacks (from 2000 to 2004), and missiles and rockets (during the Second Lebanon war and afterward), Israel’s opponents could discover that mass, nonviolent demonstrations will be their most effective strategy against the Jewish state. “We don’t deal with Gandhi very well,” admitted Amos Gilad, a senior Israeli defense official, to his U.S. counterparts, according to a recently published WikiLeaks document. The Israeli army has never had to confront an unarmed rally of thousands of people marching toward an Israeli checkpoint or a settlement.
