Word: intifadas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wanted Abbas over Barghouti, there was a certain irony in their rush to urge Barghouti to withdraw. His candidacy would have offered the Palestinian electorate a serious choice between contending views within the leading political organization over how to pursue their national aspirations, pitting a candidate favoring the armed intifada (Barghouti) against one favoring diplomacy (Abbas). Intead, Barghouti's withdrawal swept under the rug the profound divisions at the heart of Fatah, in the finest tradition of Arafat. And, like his predecessor, Abbas will be expected to be all things to all parties, with the al-Aqsa Brigade's endorsement...
...best route to the objective of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Marwan Barghouti sees armed struggle as an indispensable lever in pursuit of the same goal, seeing it as a complement to talks because he believes that the Palestinians capacity to wage an armed intifada is surer leverage at the negotiating table than relying on the goodwill of the United States...
...Tunisians" and the failure of their Oslo strategy to end the most irksome aspects of the occupation - Israel's settler population in the West Bank actually doubled in the years during which Arafat told Palestinians he was negotiating an end to the Israeli presence - finally exploded in the second intifada in September of 2000. As much as Arafat rode, and encouraged that wave of outrage, hoping - foolishly, as it turned out - that he could exploit a surge of violence to win new concessions at the negotiating table, close observers of Palestinian politics read the uprising also as a rebellion against...
...West Bank and Gaza, remain essential to Abbas's own ability to restart peace talks with Israel. Negotiations are a non-starter unless Abbas can rein in terror attacks - and to do that, he requires the consent of the militant rank and file committed to the intifada, since it's unlikely that he has the political standing even among Palestinian security personnel to prevail in a violent confrontation with the militias. Abbas's preferred method has been to negotiate cease-fire agreements with Hamas - and to the extent that he has succeeded, at least temporarily, in the past...
...future. The action provoked young Palestinians into a series of riots that resulted in fatalities, and seven years of frustration among Arafat's base reached a boiling point. Numb to the dangers of a new round of confrontations, the Palestinian leader instead sensed an opportunity: Even though the new intifada was a rebellion as much against Arafat's own diplomatic strategy as against the Israelis, Arafat believed that fanning the flames could restore his domestic support, and also scare the Americans into wrenching further concessions from the Israelis lest the situation spin out of control. But the intifada quickly developed...