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Knesset Member Ahmad Tibi On Prospects for 'Armed Intifada'

Knesset Member Ahmad Tibi, in an exclusive interview with Mazal Mualem, says that while there is a general consensus opposing an "armed intifada" by Palestinians, the situation is explosive and will deteriorate without diplomatic measures.
Israeli Arab Parliament member Ahmed Tibi (C) gestures as he stands on a bulldozer during a demonstration against Israel's construction of a road in the Arab neighbourhood of Beit Safafa in Jerusalem February 10, 2013. Some 50 Palestinians protested against the construction of the road, which they claim is an expropriation of their land. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - RTR3DL5H
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On Monday night, Feb. 25 Knesset member Ahmad Tibi made his way from Ramallah to his second home in east Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighborhood, after spending most of the day recording promotional broadcasts for the Palestinian reality show "The Rais."

Outside the studio the streets were still raging in the wake of the death of prisoner Arafat Jaradat in the Meggido prison. Tibi told me he thinks that the riots breaking out in the West Bank are harbingers of the renewal of a popular Palestinian struggle. This kind of development, he says, will surely make "The Rais" a hit.

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