在20世纪70年代末的起义中开始其政治生涯的新一代西岸巴勒斯坦人的领袖也持好战态度，在他们眼中，强硬派不过是一群疲惫不堪的老顽固，由于腐败而丧失了所有的力量。
The younger generation of indigenous West Bank Palestinians, whose leaders began political activity in the uprising of the late 1970's, embraces a militant strategy that views the hardliners as burned-out old fogies, enervated by corruption.