Even If An Intifada Has Started In The West Bank, It Won’t Look Anything Like The Last One

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“Just because people say there's an Intifada on twitter doesn't mean there's one in the West Bank,” Grant Rumley, an expert on Palestinian internal politics at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, cautioned.

But he told Business Insider an Intifada could still occur — and scramble the region's already hair trigger politics — under certain, eminently imaginable circumstances even if it wouldn't necessarily look like the insurgency of the early 2000s.

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And Rumley said it's possible that future protests could be encouraged or allowed by the PA only for events to get away from Palestinian leaders.

“These protests might be organized at some level in the leadership and on social media, but they could quickly spiral out of the leadership's control,” he says.