(NEWS) Poll: 41% Of Palestinians Support Resuming The Intifada

"Only 30% support continuing talks, as opposed to 78% of Israelis, according to joint Hebrew U.-Palestinian Center for Policy survey.

If direct talks fail, 41 percent of Palestinians support the resumption of an armed Intifada, according to a poll released on Thursday by the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah.

Sixty-four percent of Palestinians surveyed believe they need success in direct talks more than Israelis, while 51% of Israelis think both sides need success equally. Both groups are skeptical that negotiations will succeed with 5% of Israelis and 6% of Palestinians thinking they will yield an agreement, but 78% of Israelis support their continuation. Only 30% of Palestinians support continuing talks."

(NEWS) Abbas: 'We Tried Intifada, It Caused Us Great Damage'

"PA president says his people won't start violent confrontation if talks breakdown; gov't sources say Israel 'open to compromise.'

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas denied that Palestinians would turn to violence if talks are halted by saying 'we tried the Intifada and it caused us a great deal of damage,' according to an interview published in London based newspaper Al-Hayat, Army Radio reported Sunday.

Abbas claimed in the interview that if there is a breakdown in direct negotiations his people will not start violent confrontations with Israel."

(NEWS) Zoabi: Israel Is Playing With Fire

"Controversial Arab MK tells UK 'Guardian' third intifada possible.

Knesset member Haneen Zoabi has spoken to the UK's Guardian newspaper, reportedly saying that a third intifada could be on the way if the Israeli government continues to marginalize its Arab citizens.

According to the Guardian, Zoabi said that Arab Israelis are feeling increasingly connected to the the cause of the Palestinians, and increasingly isolated by the Israeli political and legal systems."

(BLOG) Hamas: Preparing For 3rd Intifada

"Disturbing book drafted by top Hamas prisoner outlines plan for future war on Israel.

'We must carefully examine the hostage's 'quality' – there is a difference between a married man and single man and between a father to children and a childless man. It's also important whether his parents are alive and there is a difference between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. …we saw that Ehud Goldwasser's wife managed to stir great empathy because of her status under Jewish law: A married woman whose husband is missing and whose fate is unknown….Goldwasser gained more media coverage at Eldad Regev's expensive, even though both of them were captured at the same time, because the media always looks for stories that can stir public emotions…'

The above quote is taken from a book titled 'Resistance – A View from the Inside.' The secret 200-page document was drafted by Mohammed Arman, a senior Hamas man jailed in Israel. The research work, referred to as 'Hamas' war plan,' was smuggled out of the Hadarim prison's most guarded wing and distributed among senior Hamas leaders, in order to prepare the ground for the 'next phase' of Palestinian resistance.

In his document, Arman combined through analysis of terror activities in the Gaza Strip and West Bank with analysis of Israeli media's nature add Hamas' strengths and weaknesses in the West Bank. He demonstrated his arguments using hundreds of examples and quotes about issues ranging from the technology of tracking cell phones to words uttered by Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, and Ehud Barak, among others."