Reinventing the Palestinian struggle | Khaled Diab | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/12/palestinian-struggle-arab-spring
Inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt, and following the date-based example of counterparts elsewhere in the Arab world, a new youth movement dubbed by some as the #March_15 movement has emerged in #Palestine.
The date refers to the day when organisers employing social media, text messaging and word of mouth managed to draw thousands of protesters on to the streets of Ramallah and other parts of the West Bank, as well as Gaza City.
However, in contrast to other popular uprisings in the region, their demands were not wholesale regime change, despite the undoubted failings of both Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza, and the absence of a democratic mandate for both parties.