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At the Daily Beast’s Open Zion blog,\u00a0Yousef Munayyer responds<\/a> to the recent gossip about another impending Palestinian uprising, or intifada. Any single incident of abuse could be the spark, he writes. Just to name a few off the top of his head:<\/p>\n There was the\u00a0killing of 17 year-old<\/a>, Mohamad Salaymeh, in December. Israeli soldiers shot and killed Lubna Hanash,\u00a0a 22 year-old female<\/a>, in Hebron last month. Then there are the\u00a0regular attacks of settler violence<\/a>\u00a0against Palestinians like\u00a0this shooting<\/a>\u00a0in Qusra last week. There is also the persistent Israeli\u00a0firing into Gaza<\/a>\u00a0which has led to numerous Palestinian deaths and casualties since the \u201cceasefire.\u201d\u00a0Or the racist beating of a\u00a0Palestinian man in Yaffa<\/a>\u00a0by a dozen or more Israeli Jews or the assault on a\u00a0Palestinian women in Jerusalem<\/a>. And, of course,\u00a0the death of Arafat Jaradat<\/a>, a 30 year-old Palestinian detained for allegedly throwing stones, only to have died days later in an Israeli prison after apparent torture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But there is something curious about the worrywarts wondering if the next intifada is upon us:<\/p>\n The fear of an oncoming\u00a0Intifada<\/i>, so commonplace in Israeli and Western debates and policy discussion on the issue, underscores exactly how this discourse is problematically filtered through the prism of Israeli security\u00a0alone<\/i>. The State Department is now calling for \u201cmaximum restraint.\u201d The Israeli prime minister\u2019s office issued Mahmoud Abbas an \u201cunequivocal demand to restore quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n But the occupation itself is an intolerable and constant system of violence. It has been ongoing for decades, with episode after episode that could be a spark. Yet it is because an\u00a0Intifada\u2014<\/i>or Palestinian uprising\u2014is understood to mean that Israelis will face greater security risks, it suddenly generates urgency and fear. The message this sends is that only when Israeli security is challenged does the world seem to take note.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n When Israel is at risk of having a few more stones thrown at it, or having more publicity of its apartheid system forced upon it – that’s when we have to worry. But the daily violence and oppression Palestinians face at the hands of the Israelis? That’s really nothing to be concerned with.<\/p>\n\n\n