Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Careful What You Wish For SENIOR OFFICIALS OF FATAH, YASSER ARAFAT'S P.L.O. faction, are telling of a plot that backfired on them. They say Fatah, not HAMAS, the Palestinian fundamentalist group, was responsible for the murder of an Israeli border policeman last month, which triggered the controversial expulsion from Israel of 415 alleged Hamas members. Fatah wanted to cause problems for its rivals in Hamas, which opposes the Middle East peace talks. Instead, the overreaction by the Israelis has aroused strong popular support for Hamas. P.L.O. representatives at the peace talks are refusing to continue...
...friendlier at his next stop, Mogadishu. The Secretary- General was forced to flee to a U.S. Marine compound after U.N. headquarters was surrounded by a raucous mob that hurled rocks and garbage. When Boutros-Ghali traveled on to Addis Ababa for the opening of peace talks among Somali faction leaders, Ethiopian demonstrators gathered to protest alleged U.N. support for the secession of the province of Eritrea...
...only hope for a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle lies in defusing Hamas' power. For this reason, a growing number of Israeli politicians, including a significant faction within Rabin's Cabinet, now advocate recognizing and speaking directly with the P.L.O. leadership. Beyond that, nationalists like Ghassan Khatib believe that Israel must offer Palestinians concrete proof that negotiations can pay off. "If there is progress in the peace talks, then the P.L.O. will be in a position to absorb Hamas," he says. "Otherwise it will be the other way around...
Despite the common ground undergraduate Republicans share with the new Majority Coalition, many in the Harvard GOP group support another faction of Republicans, led by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp...
Progressive Conservatives. This faction admires the hard right's faith in values but has little use for its protectionist leanings on economics and trade. The progressives also feel that where the free market fails, government should offer disadvantaged Americans a hand with jobs, education and health care -- as long as that aid takes the form of antibureaucratic incentives like tax breaks and vouchers. Their leading apostle is Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp, who has spent the past four years trying to reach out to African Americans and other minorities with sermons about enterprise zones, ownership and management...