Palestinians wielding new power against Israeli rule
http://972mag.com/palestinians-wielding-new-power-against-israeli-rule/66756/
Threat of Palestinian Authority’s collapse forces Netanyahu, who has humiliated Abbas and his people as often as possible, to try to placate them.
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What’s going on here? Answer: Netanyahu is scared. What he’s scared of most, I think, is that the PA will collapse, or effectively collapse, meaning it will stop playing Israel’s collaborator by keeping a tight lid on Palestinian rebellion, and thereby force Israeli troops to go back into the cities, villages and refugee camps of the West Bank and do all the dirty work themselves – 24/7, just like they did before the Oslo Accords.
That is the Israeli nightmare, or at least the nightmare of Israelis who get paid to oversee the West Bank. If the PA stops policing the Palestinians and the IDF and Border Police take their place, not only is this going to require tens of thousands of Israelis, including reservists, to go put the Palestinians back in their cages and keep them there, it’s going to mean a return to the world’s TV screens of the David vs. Goliath scenes of the first Intifada 25 years ago. It’s going to mean not only Israeli deaths and injuries, but a much, much greater number of Palestinian ones. If, in such a situation, the Palestinians were to stick to rocks and Molotov cocktails against Israel’s firepower, and, above all, if this were to happen on the watch of right-wing rejectionist Netanyahu, this would be a disaster for Israel and victory road for the Palestinians.