My 10 November post for I am Palestinian I am not a terrorist:

Is this the day one can say for sure that a Third Intifada has began?

It has been proclaimed before and it's possibility has been denied by the Palestinian Authority, but Israel's increasingly aggressive actions that make the two state solution through negotiations impossible have finally reached the stage when even the Western media could agree that a Third Intifada has begun:

That is the stage when Israel suffers casualties regularly. For the Western media peace and stability reigns in the occupied areas as long as only Palestinians die and are injured - events which are given little or no notice - but that is no longer the case.

Today a soldier and an illegal settler died in attacks that also cost the live of one attacker - a young man named Maher Hamdi al-Hashlamon apparently left to bleed to death as medical attention was given only to the injured illegal settlers - and which follow the deadly incidents in occupied E. Jerusalem.

If a Third Intifada has indeed began, everybody should remember that the choice between political, non-violent and armed resistance is the choice that only Palestinians can make for themselves and that those who support their cause should not think that they know better than Palestinians which path they should choose.

The blood that would flow as a result of a Third Intifada would be, as it has been in recent months, mostly Palestinian. It would be a heavy price to pay and the ensuing violence more widespread than ever before based on the recent evidence. A price that no foreign supporter can demand that the Palestinians should pay.

Islamic Jihad's involvement today will likely lead to Israeli attacks on Gaza and the Green Line might be no dividing line between Palestinians, as Israeli regime's increasing extremism leaves minorities in Israel itself few chances to accommodate themselves with the regime in the manner of the Arameans. Israel is leaving Arab populations in Galilee and Negev no other options than total submission or embracing the Palestinian cause.