who thought they were also entitled to some spring too I should imagine that the Palestinians must be very grateful that it doesn't happen to them. Very insightful article Ben, although I disagree with some parts. Perhaps Arab Spring has happened in Palestine already and one should look at Hamas in that context. Is the Palestinian example the future of the Arab Spring? I explain more in my article here http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/arab-spri\\... would love to know what you think of this perspective So that fact that the Palestinian authorities are quite awful shouldn't be seen as anything but a result of the conditions which have been imposed on the Palestinian population by the Israeli government. No. It should be seen as more than that. Otherwise it is to imply that the Palestinian's do not possess any moral agency of their own, which is a dangerous route to go down. I found this article unhelpful. It is encouraging, as Keo2008 says, that someone who is strongly opposed to Israel's policies towards the Palestinians is able, nevertheless, to recognise that there are multiple deep-seated problems in the Palestinian side. But that recognition depends on careful analysis of Palestinian society. This article makes many sweeping statements about who is and is not interested in making the status quo. When I checked several of the references I found that the source was simply another article making the same claims but with no detail and no indication of source material. This recycling of anecdotes and unsubstantiated