In response to the Nablus operation last week that left 10 Palestinians dead, 7 of them terrorists killed by the IDF and the other three possibly killed by wildly firing Palestinian gunmen, Palestinian groups called for a "day of rage" on Friday.
It turns out that the "day of rage" had already been declared before the events in Nablus. Palestinian prisoner solidarity organizations had already called for "day of rage" protests for Friday because of Israeli actions against cushy prisoner benefits, like unlimited hot water for showers and the ability to bake their own bread.
The National newspaper (UAE) went to Jerusalem to cover these planned protests. They found - nothing.
A Day of Rage planned by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem passed largely without incident on Friday.The response to an Israeli military raid that killed 11 Palestinians a few days earlier was expected to flare up after Friday prayers at Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.But hundreds streamed out of Bab Al Silsilah, one of the compound’s main entrances, in the same quiet manner that they entered about an hour earlier.In half an hour, just one worshipper remonstrated briefly with Israeli guards directly outside the entrance to the compound, perhaps the most historically contested site in the decades-long conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.An owner of a nearby cafe told The National he still expected protests, “maybe in half an hour, maybe in a couple of days. We don’t know”.
The PFLP-linked Samidoun NGO managed to get one small protest going - in Berlin. It doesn't look like it attracted more than a 15 people. As of this writing, even the video of the protest has only been watched a couple dozen times.
You can see that Berlin residents pass right behind them without even a glance of curiosity. (Notice also that they routinely write their signs in English.)
Yet even this tiny demonstration seems to have been larger than anything the Palestinians themselves managed to put together.
As with the right-wing "day of hate" on Saturday that does not seem to have materialized, these events are, more often than not, duds.
They get more publicity from the announcements than from the actual protests.
