Nakba Day Protests: Palestine's Arab Spring? | Sojourners

Nakba Day Protests: Palestine's Arab Spring?

1100525-palestine-arab-springThe scenes were stunning: Hundreds of demonstrators pouring across the fence between Syria and the Israeli occupied Golan Heights. Over coffee in an East Jerusalem café, an Arab Druze friend who was there that day in Majdal Shams said, "it was like a dream." The Economist called it Israel's "nightmare scenario: masses of Palestinians marching, unarmed