The Israeli-Palestinian conflict won’t be the same again

“First, the quiescence of the Palestinian people — accused, often most forcefully from within their own communities, of apathy and indifference — never amounted to acceptance of defeat. They have shown that Israel cannot persist in its policies without paying a price,” wrote Tareq Baconi in the London Review of Books. “Second, regardless of whether a broader movement emerges out of the current moment, the collective eruption across historical Palestine shows that the Palestinians remain a people, despite the false hope of partition, the all-too-real separation of their territories, and the deep fragmentation of their political and social life.”