It seems that the Arab Spring has skipped over the Palestinians. Those Arab countries, where Facebook and Twitter youths rose up against existing regimes and revealed new leaders in their midst, are still waiting to see whether West Bank and Gaza youths will succeed in producing revolutionary heroes — heroes such as Wael Ghonim, one of the leaders of the Tahrir protest, or Mohammed Abdel-Aziz, leader of the "Tamarod" movement that hurled the first stone in Egypt, a stone that turned into the tremendous avalanche that brought down the Muslim Brotherhood.
Although there are latent buds of a “Palestinian Tamarod” in the Gaza Strip, Gaza's youths are concerned about making waves, evidently with justification. The Palestine square in Gaza is not Tahrir Square, and the Egyptian army that protected Egyptian protesters is not Hamas’ military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, that already used threats and violence to disperse youths attempting to protest.
