Israel is bracing for trouble, Friday, as Palestinians plan to mark their annual Land Day commemoration with mass peaceful protests that will include marches on Jerusalem and other parts of the West Bank, and demonstrations by Palestinian communities inside Israel and by refugees on Israel's borders in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. These protests are not being organized by Abbas and his Fatah movement, nor by their rivals in Hamas, but instead by grassroots activist groups that have long given up waiting for the strategies of the rival national organizations to bear fruit.
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