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Money, Guns and Politics in the West Bank
(International Crisis Group) Despite the ferment in the West Bank, the preponderance of evidence indicates that fears of a Third Intifada were overblown. There is no indication that a critical mass of Palestinians will push their political system to the boiling point or move sharply into confrontation with Israel. With no unified Palestinian leadership, no strategy, and the people themselves divided and exhausted, an uprising possesses limited popular appeal.