Word: intifadas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Netanyahu's popularity may be the surest sign that Israel is in no mood to make peace right now. He has already begun campaigning, playing on Israeli anxiety in the face of the renewed Palestinian intifada to charge that Barak's peace efforts have compromised Israel's security, and promising a return to his peace-through-strength philosophy. It may be a measure of the depth of their fears that many of the same Israeli voters who drove Netanyahu out of office only 18 months ago for his failure to make meaningful progress toward peace with the Palestinians...
...feat in light of the fact that the former prime minister is widely loathed even in his own party, after leading Likud to its worst electoral showing in decades last year. The role of Sharon's provocative visit to the Temple Mount last September in sparking the current Palestinian intifada won't be forgotten by Barak's attack dogs...
...likely seek to underline his credentials as a military man who can maintain the tough posture Israeli voters desire even as he seeks a peace agreement. Voters have shown growing concern over the fact that their vaunted security forces appear to have been unable to respond decisively to the intifada, and their rising fear and despair has counted against Barak'S chances of reelection until now. But Barak showed Saturday that he clearly has a reelection plan, and canny observers of the region don't doubt that it might involve a few nasty surprises for his external enemies, too. After...
...believing that Palestinians are gaining nothing for the heavy price they're being forced to pay when the Israelis retaliate with tank and machine-gun fire. Arafat appears to have heeded their pleas by stepping up patrols to stop shooters, but the incident may be symptomatic of a creeping intifada fatigue among many West Bank Palestinians. Many ordinary Palestinians are beginning to complain that they're suffering tremendous casualties and economic deprivations in pursuit of goals that remain undefined...
...Ehud Barak's already slim prospects of achieving the pre-election peace deal that may be his last hope of holding off the challenge of Benjamin Netanyahu, and also nurtures Hamas, Islamic Jihad an other radical elements who have no interest in negotiating a peace agreement. So with an intifada in full swing, the right-wing Likud party poised to return to power and most of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations still underway happening in secret, President Clinton may have to scrap Middle East peace from his legacy talking points...