Palestinian Nonviolence

Here is an excellent blog from Amnesty International about the Palestinian nonviolence movement. It is a side of the Palestinian struggle that we in America never see. The only images we see in the media of Palestinians are of violent people blowing themselves up or hijacking airplanes. There is never any media coverage of Palestinians who are nonviolent.
Here's the first couple of paragraphs of the article, along with the link for the rest of it:

"Remarks made by Bono , New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and President Barack Obama stating they hoped Palestinians would find their Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) or Gandhi completely ignore Palestinian nonviolent resistance to brutal oppression.

The presumption that the Palestinian struggle is mainly violent is disturbing. And the dismissal of the people who have sacrificed time, money and even their lives to fight injustice with nonviolence is callous.

Although Palestinian nonviolent resistance dates back to the early 1900’s, the image of armed and violent Palestinians still prevails.   In the 1970’s and 80’s, Palestinian refugees from camps in foreign countries, seeing no resolution after decades of displacement, chose armed struggle and  more recent suicide bombings in Israel  reinforced the perception.

Several factors have hindered a single, iconic figure from emerging or a cohesive civil disobedience movement from blooming despite its continued use by different sectors of Palestinian society......"

http://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/palestinian-nonviolent-resistance-has-strong-roots/