Word: intifadah
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...turn around and pull a Baruch Goldstein, a terrorist action against Palestinians that would create a lot more of an unpredictable and dangerous situation than Sharon?s bombing. Another option Sharon is weighing is whether to allow Jews back onto the Temple Mount for the first time since the intifadah. Some security advisers are saying this will help defuse settler anger; others are saying it will further inflame the Palestinians. And even many Israelis who supported the peace process and opposed Sharon support the strikes on Arafat's Force 17, feeling that they have been betrayed by Arafat...
...suit either side, even though they may work to keep channels open in order to ensure that the low-level shooting war doesn?t spin out of control. Seven years after the Oslo Accord, the reality on the West Bank and Gaza remains Israeli occupation and Palestinian intifadah. But now, as then, it?s a contest that neither side can really win by force, and at some point they?ll be forced to start talking again. But a lot more blood may be spilt before then...