Alwaght- Palestinians, whether in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip have engaged in violent confrontations with the Israeli Occupation Forces. From rocket-launching wide-scale offensives, to the Intifadas, in which weapons, stones, and knives have been used against the Israeli aggressors, Palestinians are becoming increasingly aware that the only viable way to liberate their land from the Zionist regime is by fighting fire with fire, in spite of the saying that warns against it.
Alwaght- A recent poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) has revealed that many Palestinians cast off the so-called two-state solution backed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas as a sham, and believe in the power of armed resistance.
Specifically, the poll found that two thirds of the population is seeking the resignation of Abbas, who represents the failure of attempts to create peace with the Israeli regime. This failure, which has been stretched over the period of many years has provided grounds for the belief in the return to armed confrontations. The longer the US-backed negotiations are protracted, the deeper the conviction is implanted within the mind-set of Palestinians living under occupation and in the diaspora. Disappointment along with disgruntlement is reflective of the Palestinian public opinion, in light of the security and economic crises they are living in.
This is what the survey also revealed. A growing majority of Palestinians maintain that an armed intifada would weaken the Israeli regime and pave the way for the liberation of their homeland which has been occupied for 68 years.
Met with physical brutality, rights violations, and continuing land theft under the protection of the international community, Palestinians face the Israeli threat on a day-to-day basis.
The latest spate of attacks against Israelis by knife-wielding Palestinians exemplify the deep-rooted pain and revolution within the younger Palestinian generation which has not given up the fight of the previous generations and are becoming more and more fed-up with the regime in Tel Aviv.
Palestinians have shown the world their commitment to the struggle for freedom as even when in want of weapons, they have resorted to primitive means of resistance. These means, which are today retrieved from everyday kitchen utensils, portray the need for armament to settle the conflict once and for all.
Driven by the anger resulting from being subjected to killings, detentions, torture, and robbery of their lands, in addition to the desecration of their religious sanctities, namely the holy Al-Aqsa mosque, Palestinians have been forced to fight back.
Occasionally, protesters clash with Israeli troops specifically in occupied al-Quds. Home-made Molotov cocktails can be seen blazing in pitch-dark Palestinian neighbourhoods, as Palestinians throw balls of fire at the IOF, a force that guards the inferno that continues to burn Palestinian lives.
In this sense, many believe that it is easier to put out the fire, if it first grows exponentially in one place—the battlefield—before it spreads across Palestine and burns it to the ground.
