November 2009 A growing discontent with the Palestinian leadership is fuelling an aggressive new uprising amongst young people in the West Bank. Can Fatah regain the trust of its people before the violence escalates? A spokesman for Fatah declares, We are a movement of the people. And we encourage diversity of opinion. However, since the war in Gaza, any diversity of opinion has been met with heavy-handed control in the West Bank. Opinion amongst young people is that Fatah, will sell their country and the whole Arab nation for one schekel. Having lost faith in what they see as a weak and corrupt leadership, increasingly young people are taking matters into their own hands. In the village of Nilin young boys describe themselves as martyrs in a land of resistance. Violent clashes with Israeli soldiers are creating a volatile and anarchic culture of revenge. Today they dont have a leadership; today they have a crisis of vision and crisis of organisation.
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