I have argued in an article in early October about a coming third intifada as something to be expected at any moment, to be a sort of game changer. The variable to unleash this could be any particular dramatic incident. The fact remains that the Palestinian people in the occupied territories are living under increasing frustration accompanied by lowered or almost nonexistent expectations for ending the status quo of humiliation — both in their daily human conditions and in their collective national aspiration.
What would also encourage such an intifada to occur — or to use a term that became popular in the last two years in the Arab world, a Palestinian spring to occur — is the demonstration effect of other intifadas in the Arab world that started in Tunisia. In the Palestinian case, the structural violence perpetuated by the occupation increases the chances of such intifada taking place.
