In an article entitled “Can Anyone Prevent A Third Intifada?”, written by Gregg Carlstrom and carried by Foreign Policy, the author drearily writes that “the violence has spread far beyond Jerusalem”. “Israelis have been stabbed on the street in Raanana, Hadera, and Afula — quiet cities, away from Israel’s contested borders, and hardly hotbeds of tension. The West Bank and Gaza have also seen sustained unrest, with 18 Palestinians killed in a week of protests, mostly by live fire from Israeli troops. The number of wounded now tops 1,400 people, according to medics”, author says.
Following that up, he observes that “Once again, politicians and pundits debate what to call it. On this matter, there is rare agreement between Ismail Haniyeh, the Gaza-based leader of Hamas, and Isaac Herzog, the Israeli opposition leader: Both say that we are witnessing the beginning of the Third Intifada.”
Andrei Fyodorov, Russia’s ex-Deputy Foreign Minister and Director of the Centre for Political Studies (studio guest) and Hugh Lovatt, the Israel/Palestine project coordinate at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) based in London discussed the situation.