diana buttu is an attorney based in palestine.e has served as a legal advisor to the palestinians in negotiations with israel. she was previously an advisor to palestinian president mahmoud abbas. didion levy is a member of the newspaper editorial board. he is the author of "the punishment of gaza turk." budour hassan is a palestinian writer, activist and law student at the hebrew university in jerusalem. her most recent piece for electronic intifada is called, "son of palestine' mourned by thousands." are we seeing a third intifada? a doesn't matter how you classified, if you classified as an intifada or not, but what is happening is palestinians are being killed at will by the israeli government and by israelis. it is turned into a lynch mob scene where all it takes is for one person to scream out that the person is an air or terrorist and suddenly, you see the shoe to kill orders that have been issued by the government come into effect. we have seen this with at least a future in just this past week. one was killed last week. a