Word: intifadas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...moot point - if the pressure is there, then until now it hasn't been working. Sharon is still holding out for his 48 hours of calm before allowing the meeting, but attacks are continuing. Also, later this week is the first year's anniversary of the current intifada, and major demonstrations are planned in every Palestinian town. Those demonstrations will, in all likelihood, lead to clashes with the Israelis, and more deaths. There are also strong indications that Hamas or Islamic Jihad might want to hit Israel around that day. And then there's also big unknown of what...
...Anti-American sentiment has peaked over the past year because of the Palestinian uprising. A primary theme in the current intifada is control over the Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, an issue that stirs powerful emotions across the Arab world. Strong U.S. political support for Israel and the fact that Israel has used U.S.-supplied F-16s and Apache helicopters against Palestinians has fanned the anti-American flames...
...hardly surprising that Israel's Labor Party can't agree on a new leader, because the party of Oslo is no longer sure of what it wants to be. In dealing with the intifada, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon believes time and muscle is on Israel's side, and that the only way forward for the Jewish state is to tough it out, for decades if need be, in the belief that the resolve of its enemies will ultimately weaken. But the more dovish Labor party leaders such as Knesset speaker Avram Burg believe Sharon's strategic vision is the more...
...Sharon likes to joke that the tough-talking Ben-Eliezer is even more hawkish than himself. Burg is the thoughtful dove who, despite supporting strong military action in response to the current intifada, believes that Israel ultimately has no choice but to resume talks with the Palestinians. Those positions, of course, are not incompatible in the short term - Labor's caretaker leader Shimon Peres has, in his capacity as Sharon's foreign minister, been pursuing cease-fire talks with Yasser Arafat even as Ben-Eliezer has been sending tanks into Palestinian-controlled territories. And a strong feeling that they were...
...developments in the West Bank and Gaza go far beyond the intifada. It's no longer marches and stones; it's guns and tanks and missiles. It's becoming a purely military confrontation...