Palestinian youth divided over days of rage
While many Palestinian university students interviewed for this story were not in favor of clashing with the IDF, saying their leadership is using them as tools in a political game, others wore their time in Israeli prison as a badge of honor and one even asserted the only answer is to 'stab, shoot or kill Israelis.'
On January 20, 2018, the statement by the PLO said: “We urge our nation’s sons and our nation’s working partners to increase and expand the popular resistance and turn the lives of settlers into hell. We start this coming Friday, after we pray, with big massive protests at mutual points of military barriers.”
In interviewing students from various universities, most youth did not favor clashing with the IDF, citing the government using them as tools to further their political agenda, while there were a number of students who wore being in and out of Israeli jails as a badge of honor.
Most saw Israel as their enemy and “occupier” and that the only solution was all of Israel is Palestine. One student from Modern College University, where three students were involved in recent stabbing attacks against Israelis, was anxious to share that the only answer is to “stab, shoot or kill Israelis.”
Article written by Felice Friedson and Dima Abumaria
Reprinted with permission from The Media Line