“The violence could taper off as the Israeli crackdown increases, though Israel is also carrying out policies such as home demolitions that could further inflame the situation,” FMEP President Matthew Duss told the Fair Observer. “Whether or not we call it an intifada, the violence will return again and again as long as the occupation continues.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a speech on Tuesday to the Zionist Congress, blamed a Palestinian, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, for the Holocaust.

“Trotting out the Holocaust as a worldview that explains all of the violence and incitement that happens in Israel eludes reality, and places Israel in a dangerous position by missing what is actually going on and preventing an appropriate policy response,” writes Michael Koplow.

“Defenders of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu have seized on a recent report in Haaretz to argue that Netanyahu’s record shows that he has, in fact, been less pro-settlements than his detractors (including Peace Now) have suggested,” write Lara Friedman and Hagit Ofran. “But the number of settlement starts in East Jerusalem under Netanyahu, averaged across his entire time in office, is higher than at any time since Ehud Barak was prime minister (1999-2000), and almost double the annual average when Netanyahu was Prime Minister in the 1990s.”

“Recent headlines by Western news outlets, such as the BBC, CNN and The Telegraph, in the coverage of the recent spate of violence currently unfolding in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory have tended to focus on the Israeli victims of the unrest,” writes Megan Hanna.

“The timing was hardly ideal when the Israeli police evicted five Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood of Silwan, near the Old City,” writes Nathan Guttman.

“These walls have already built unseen fences of hatred and will continue to exist in our midst as a malignant poison. Where we have built walls, we will have to build even higher and higher walls,” writes Yudith Oppenheimer.

“The violence of the past three weeks is a resurgence of occupation’s costs, which, though unpleasant for Israel, have so far remained the bearable price of holding onto East Jerusalem and the West Bank,” writes Nathan Thrall.

“Netanyahu is the only one in the world who is responsible for this situation,” accuses Tanzim head Adnan Gaith. “Abbas believes in peace, but he doesn’t and will not believe in being a soldier protecting Israel’s borders.”

Two top congressional appropriators, a Republican and a Democrat, warned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that US funds are contingent on tamping down incitement during the current wave of violence.