From Global Post:
Rain on the streets of Bethlehem can’t cool simmering tension.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — A writer seeks the surprise of a “man bites dog” story. The most violent times of the Second Intifada, which took place under the leaden winter skies of early 2002, gave me mine. I wrote about Arabs in the rain.
It was raining in the city of Jesus’ birth throughout “The Collaborator of Bethlehem,” the first of my Palestinian crime novels. I set the story during the brief Middle Eastern winter because it makes the place look different, not as one might expect.
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My Comment: Unlike the previous two Intifada’s that were organized and managed by Fatah, another Intifada would involve a second partner …. Hamas. But with these two organizations fighting among themselves one can only expect a future intifada to be bloody and violent …. especially among the Palestinians.
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