Word: intifadah
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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...
Danilewitz depicts the recent confrontations as an Intifadah II, occurring within the broader context of a desperately ailing peace process...
...this, Yassir Arafat's growing resume of handshakes and photo-ops have demonstrated that in spite of what may look good on CNN or in picture-perfect Rose Garden ceremonies, for the average Israeli and the average Palestinian, little has changed since the curtain unofficially closed on the Intifadah three years...
...response of the international community to round two of the Intifadah was equally predictable. Like clockwork, the Arab uprising was followed by a myriad of "condemnations," "calls for tranquillity in the region" and a series of United Nations debates which inevitably led to the equivalent of a resolution criticizing Israeli troops for exercising their right to self-defense. France, traditionally no great friend of the Jewish State, joined the Arab nations in issuing a strong rebuke for Israel's defending itself. According to The New York Times, Washington called upon both sides not to raise any "new issues." Someone should...