Unrest All Around: Israel Ripe for a Third Intifada?

CBN News ^ | July 23, 2014 | George Thomas

[huldah1776]

BETHLEHEM, Israel -- As the war in the Gaza Strip continues, some fear a third intifada (armed Palestinian uprising) may be brewing.

Forty-six miles away from the fighting against Hamas terrorists in Gaza, there's another battle some say is being dangerously ignored by the world.

"My big concern right now is this -- is that the West Bank is being neglected with the riots that are being done every single night, almost now 13, 14 nights in a row," Pastor Steven Khoury, with Holy Land Missions, told CBN News.

Khoury, a prominent Christian Arab who lives in Bethlehem, worries the area is ripe for another intifada.

"I was born in Jerusalem. I grew up in Bethlehem. I remember how the first and second intifada started, and I'm seeing in this evidence of another outbreak of an intifada in the West Bank," he said.

Here on the streets, Palestinian protesters angry about Israel's war on Hamas are running daily skirmishes with Israeli soldiers and Palestinian Authority police. Several people have been killed and some injured.

[huldah1776]

Domino effect. I was unaware of all the towns in Israel that were infected.

[cuban leaf]

Meh. More justifiable targets.

[SJackson]

The towns he mentions, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus and Hebron are in Judea but under the control of the Palestinian Authority, not Israel.

[SJackson]

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[rdcbn]

There will be a Third Intifada, but it will be short lived.

West Bank residents have it pretty good compared to the rest of the Arab world and the Israeli's of 2014 who grew up cheated by the PLO and living the first two intifadas are a far different breed than those of 10 years ago.

[demshateGod]

I was listening to a lecture on Youtube about WWI given by a professor at University of Texas. He said at the start of the war many of the leaders of Europe were vacationing: no one thought a world war was about to break out.

I think there’s a pretty good chance, in today’s strange zeitgeist, that an intifada would be met with brutality that we haven’t seen from Israel in a long time. When that happens, things will go on autopilot all around the world. Europe will put boots on the ground to stop Israel plus fight their Muslim population in the streets. Our president will openly declare Israel as war criminals and enemies of peace. That will be all patriotic Americans can take. We’ll have a civil war here. It’ll be like the early 20th century: A massive remapping of the world.

Maybe not.

[Rashputin]

I'm not so sure Israel won't just figure, "the US has us on their bad guys list anyway, why not cripple the Palastinian SOBs enough that they won't be a problem for a while"?

It's not like they can loose US support they don't have anyway so why not go hammer and thong?

To me, the wildcard in Isreal has always been the Jewish factions within Israel and the US that want to give the country away. Israel can handle the ebb and flow of US support but dealing with the wildcard means dealing with the reality that a lot of little factions will sometimes throw in with those they hate and disagree with to change horses in the middle of the stream.

Maybe I missed it, but the wildcard cabal has been quieter than in the past.

[RetSignman]

It’s not like they can loose US support...
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Not if they keep it tight.