A Guardian opinion piece (There will be no peace until Israel’s occupation of Palestine ends, 11 October) by Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian currently serving multiple life terms for deadly terror attacks in Israel, included the surreal suggestion that the current generation of Palestinians are resisting the occupation while “unarmed”. Of course, even during a typical “quiet” month in Israel, more than a hundred violent attacks are launched by armed Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem.
However, his risible claim about the putatively non-violent nature of the current “resistance” is that much more astonishing in that it was advanced during a several-week period in which Israelis have been killed and injured in a wave of Arab attacks using rocks, knives, firebombs and automatic rifles. Indeed, on the very day I write these words, three Israelis have been murdered and 24 wounded in five different Palestinian stabbings, shootings and run-over attacks. And that’s just today’s tally by three in the afternoon.
Adam Levick
Managing editor, UK Media Watch, Jerusalem
