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Op-Ed via Gulf News

Reasons for the most recent protests are clear: Palestinians are fed up

By  Diana Buttu on October 12, 2015

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This week Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians, including a 13-year-old child, in protests across the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces maimed and wounded 800 additional Palestinians. Yet despite the deaths of these Palestinians, and the others that preceded them this year, talk of a “third intifada” only began in the international media with the killing of four Israeli colonists.

Ignored, of course, are that popular protests against Israel’s occupation have been ongoing throughout Palestine for years. No, for Israelis and for the international media, an uprising only begins when blood is shed, particularly Jewish Israeli blood.

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