Word: intifadas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Idea of Fun” points out, “Now is the season / For war with no reason.” However, one has to wonder what Iggy was thinking when he combined the words “Madonna,” “Intifada,” “Nirvana,” and “Dalai Lama” in the same verse of “Free & Freaky.” Being part of the counterculture seems to justify the band’s each and every musical choice: while certain tracks contain...
...against Carter’s assertions. It claimed, for example, that the description in “Palestine” of the security barrier as an “imprisonment wall” is unfair because it was created to prevent terrorists from entering the country during the second Intifada when 1,000 Israelis were killed between 2000 and 2004. “President Carter’s book has been met with controversy and criticism by top scholars who consider it to lack objectivity and to contain factual errors, omissions, and plagiarism,” Stern said...
...claimed, for example, that the description in “Palestine” of the security barrier as an “imprisonment wall” is unfair because it was created to prevent terrorists from entering the country during the second Intifada when 1,000 Israelis were killed between...
...complaining about his personal control over PA funds, Israel was in fact paying half of the revenues due to the PA into accounts personally controlled by Arafat. It was only after Arafat failed to accept the terms offered by the Israelis at Camp David, and instead encouraged a renewed intifada, that his personal power was raised as a problem - and then by a new Israeli leadership even more fervently opposed to the deal offered at Camp David than Arafat had been...
...symbolic recognition of Israel and renunciation of violence is pointless. Fatah recognized the State of Israel only because it had become clear to them that Israel was an irreversible historical fact. But that certainly did not stop Fatah's rank and file from taking up arms during the intifada that began in September 2000. Ask Mahmoud Abbas or any other moderate Palestinian leader whether they would rather Israel had not come into being in 1948, and there can be no doubt of the honest answer...