The Arab Spring did not bring, as of yet, stability to any country in which it occured, but it did bring forth a new gospel that’s impossible to ignore – the gospel of “The democracy of the masses, and not necessarily of the majority.” Mideast nations suddenly realized their strength and their ability to cause coups and change regimes. The public realized that if there’s a critical mass of displeased people – even if they are not, by definition, a majority – the regime will struggle to rule.

Even a brief scan of the situation makes it clear that all conditions are there for a Palestinian mass to rise up. Enormous tensions and frustration are building up within Palestinians who feel their land is being taken away from them, who see new settlements built every day, and who realize that the state they so wish for is moving away. They can’t even take much solace in the economy anymore. Feelings of oppression and discrimination intensify as rage sets off over the incessant abuse of Price Taggers and their accomplices.

But in my experience, the most dangerous of all is the ever spreading impression among Palestinians that “there is no future, only a past.” The past has nothing good in it, and the future – surely the shared one – no longer exists.

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