Via Al-Shabaka (thx Tariq Dana)
In Jerusalem Unrest, Signs of a ‘Run-Over Intifada’ for the 21st Century
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/world/middleeast/israel-palestinians-jerusalem-unrest-al-aqsa.html?ref=world
In the context of Jerusalem’s unrest and speculations of a Third Intifada, Al-Shabaka advisor Ingrid Jaradat Gassner tells the New York Times that the underlying conditions of Palestinian resistance have fundamentally changed. Former grassroots leaders are now entrenched in the Palestinian Authority or nongovernmental organizations, Gassner said, with mortgages and other middle-class trappings that make them less willing to take to the streets. Political parties are disconnected from the populace. The separation barrier Israel built after the Second Intifada, and security coordination between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, hamper mobilization.