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After One Year of Gaza Protests
(New York Review of Books) Tareq Baconi - The jubilation that marked the early days of the "Great March of Return" last year has given way to cynicism. Fewer Gazans join the front-line protests, and the marchers represent a narrower section of Palestinian society than they once did. Today, families try to prevent their children from going to the fence. Of the teenagers who went last year to seek glory and a sense of agency over their lives, many returned disabled and more deprived of hope than before; fewer see any point in taking their place. The writer is the International Crisis Group analyst for Israel/Palestine.