Despite being a largely secular generation, they are using the narrative of jihad (the knife is a conspicuous Islamic State symbol) to defy their parents’ docility, challenge an incompetent Palestinian leadership, and, most of all, to resist the Israeli occupiers. That is why they have made Islam’s holy shrines on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount (Haram al-Sharif to Muslims) into icons of their rebellion.
年轻的巴勒斯坦人——在以色列占领下生活的第三代——已经失去了耐心。虽然多数人赞成世俗理念，但他们正试图利用圣战理念（刀是象征伊斯兰国的显著标志）来公然反抗顺从的父母、挑战不称职的巴勒斯坦领导层、而且最重要的是，反抗以色列占领军。这就是他们为什么会选用耶路撒冷圣殿山上的伊斯兰教圣殿来作为自己反抗标志的原因。