Word: intifadas
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...some Israeli right-wingers have warned that a civilian court will offer a political platform to the most articulate spokesman for the Palestinian intifada. Barghouti grabbed just such an opportunity during his brief appearance Tuesday, directing his political message at Israelis. And his lawyer has also made clear that Barghouti's legal defense is rooted in the premise that the Israeli court has no authority to try his client, something Barghouti's representatives have maintained since his capture by an Israeli special forces unit outside Ramallah...
...able to stop attacks on Israelis, the Gaza would be emulated in other West Bank cities. The Palestinian leadership, in giving qualified support to the proposal, proclaimed it as a basis for realizing their demand that Israel withdraw to its September 2000 positions, before the outbreak of the current intifada. But the Palestinians want guarantees that implementing the plan in Gaza would result in its extension to the West Bank, and insist the plan be implemented simultaneously in Gaza and in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. It was over the latter point that negotiations broke down Wednesday night...
...unemployment, and an army of young men in occupation of a foreign land... but inevitably and eventually, your hotels will empty, your factories will close, your businesses will be bankrupted, your children will go hungry and your soldiers will want to come home." Almost two years into the current intifada, Israeli-Palestinian relations remain stalled in a violent impasse. And right now, the cost of maintaining that impasse to both societies may be the best reason for hope among those seeking a political solution...
...magic of the movies makes people react in strange ways. But truth is stranger than fiction, and the real-life terrorist attacks on the United States and the latest intifada launched against Israel have made a lot of people—particularly American Jews—react in even stranger ways...
...that Arafat chose to retire, the menu of likely successors, if chosen democratically, is hardly palatable to Washington. The most popular current Palestinian leaders, after Arafat, are Marwan Barghouti, the West Bank Fatah chief currently in an Israeli prison for his role in directing the Tanzim militias in this intifada, and Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the blind spiritual leader of Hamas. The moderate negotiators from Arafat's inner circle such as Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu Mazen) and Ahmed Qurei (a.k.a. Abu Ala) are aging and in ill health, and their intimate involvement in the failed Oslo process has made them magnets...