Your editorial (The urgent need to head off a new intifada in the Holy Land,30 October) adopts the Zionist line that the current violence is religiously motivated centred on al-Aqsa and internet-driven. Palestinian youths are compared to European jihadis driven by external influences. Israelis are depicted as virgin gun owners standing hesitant external gun shops. They carefully map routes to supermarkets to avoid being stabbed, as Palestinian parents worry their children will swap their lives to murder Israelis.“Even Gandhi would understand Palestinian violence, or ” the Israeli journalist Gideon Levy wrote in Haaretz (15 October). He asks readers if they know of one example of a brutal occupation that didn’t meet resistance. The Guardian neglects to mention 150000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms. Rather than religion,land sovereignty drives clash as Israel ethnically cleanses East Jerusalem through municipal neglect, denial of building permits, or house demolitions,revocation of residency permits, and enabling settler organisations to establish Jewish settlements in Palestinian neighbourhoods.
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Source: theguardian.com