Word: intifadah
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...Jerusalem at Camp David in 2000, then Likud leader Ariel Sharon walked onto the city's Islamic holy sites to symbolically declare his party's determination to keep all of the city in Israeli hands. (Sharon's action touched off a riot that marked the beginning of the Second Intifadah.) Today's Likud leader, Netanyahu, and the party's coalition partners appear as determined as Sharon was to maintain Jerusalem as "Israel's eternal and undivided capital...
...Mitchell led an international fact-finding team looking into the roots of the Palestinian uprising known as the Intifadah. He drew a line connecting Palestinian anger to the spread of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and that line is still there, only more indelible. The leftist Hebrew daily Ha'aretz on Friday published a confidential report from the Israeli defense ministry stating that over 75% of construction in settlements ever built was done without the proper permits, and much of the building was carried out illegally on private Palestinian land...
...Palestinian-Israeli future, the future of the entire region, and perhaps even the future of the relationship between the Arab-Islamic world and the Western world." Such dire warnings may be pre-conference jockeying, but perhaps wisdom to take to heart, considering the tumultuous events - the second intifadah - that followed the collapse of peace hopes seven autumns ago in Camp David. Who knows what Annapolis will deliver...
...since it will abide by past accords signed by the Palestinians with the Israelis. Nor is Hamas putting down its arms. Exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal warned from Algeria on Tuesday that Hamas has not halted its armed struggle against Israel. He added that Hamas was bracing for another intifadah or uprising. These are not necessarily empty threats: Israeli intelligence officials say that in recent months Hamas and other militant groups smuggled dozens of tons of explosives and weapons through tunnels into Gaza in preparation for a future battle with the Israelis...
...What has earned Lieberman such epithets - and intrigues many Israelis who believe that the Intifadah?s suicide bombings have made co-existence with the Palestinians impossible - are Lieberman's plans to re-draw borders along ethnic lines. He proposes a new frontier between Israel and Palestine, forcing some 500,000 Arabs, who are now citizens of Israel, inside the Palestinian territories. Lieberman brushes aside the charges leveled against him. "I?m pragmatic, that?s all," retorts Lieberman, a wide-faced man with a cropped beard, whose party, Yisrael Beiteinu ("Israel, Our Home"), is expected to scoop up at least...