Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intifadeh has given birth to a diffuse and decentralized underground of local popular committees and anonymous coordinators that has survived both the murder of al-Wazir and the arrest of nearly 5,000 Palestinians since December. Many of the local leaders are adherents of one P.L.O. faction or another, but they evidently do not take orders from anyone outside the occupied territories. Rather, decisions made within the occupied territories appear to be approved and ratified by the Palestinian leadership in exile...
...year-old graduate of Israeli jails, Mahmoud has worked since February to stoke the fires of rebellion. His personal allegiance is to Fatah al- Intifadeh, a hard-line, pro-Syrian faction. His first assignment was to transform the informal activism of his home refugee camp into an efficient engine of protest. With seven other Palestinians representing most of the P.L.O. factions and one spokesman for unallied "independents," Mahmoud welded together a series of secret subcommittees charged with various aspects of the rebellion...
...committee is the one for "struggle operations." This supersecret, three- or four-member group decides what specific actions to take, from stone throwing to confrontations with the Israeli army. Once a tactic is approved, word is passed to the camp's or village's popular committee. From there, individual faction leaders mobilize their forces...
According to observers, the Law School is composed roughly of CLS adherents, CLS opponents and undecided faculty in equal numbers. At times, each faction has had enough pull to bring the tenure process to a grinding halt, destroying the faculty's collegiality. Most recently, the case of Assistant Professor of Law Clare Dalton, who was denied tenure by the faculty and President Bok on review, has raised issues of gender and political discrimination that have turned academic disputes into personal ones...
While that seems a distant prospect, al-Wazir's funeral did have the momentary effect of unifying the fractured Palestinian community in mourning. Almost every faction was represented at the burial, and the graveside frenzy was dignified by the presence of such Palestinian leaders as Farouk Kadoumi, Nayef Hawatmey and George Habash. But the turnout could not mask the absence of one man: Arafat. As his closest friend was being lowered into the ground, Arafat was in Libya talking to Muammar Gaddafi...