Word: intifadas
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...Israeli military authorities had banned PLO organizations from operating openly there, it consciously allowed Hamas - whose activities did not at that time include armed actions - to flourish as an alternative to Arafat, who remained Israel's primary enemy at the time. But Hamas's active role in the first intifada led to Israel banning the organization in 1989 and imprisoning its founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin...
...While the intifada has made Hamas a de facto ally of Fatah and the PA in the day-to-day battles against the Israelis, the Islamist group remains resolutely opposed to any attempt to restore the crippled peace process. Their latest wave of suicide bombings are designed in part to sabotage U.S. efforts to broker a cease-fire, and the resulting international pressure on Arafat has set him on a collision course with Hamas...
...also claimed responsibility for a suicide bus bombing in Haifa on Sunday morning that left 15 Israeli civilians dead. The death toll may rise as those who were wounded die of their injuries. The attacks that Israel endured over the weekend were among the most deadly of the latest intifada...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lurched into its most dangerous crisis since the onset of the intifada last year. But the danger lies less in the escalation of what remains a familiar pattern of violence, than in the fact that the none of the key players - the government of Ariel Sharon, the Palestinian leadership and the Bush administration - appears to have a clear strategy, and all three are deeply divided over how to proceed...
...basic argument made by the new Israeli “left-right” has been the same since the beginning of the recent intifada: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former President Bill Clinton made Palestinian Authority (PA) Chair Yassir Arafat the most generous offer possible, but Arafat nevertheless turned it down. They offered him control over most of Arab East Jerusalem and over 90 percent of the West Bank and Gaza. But Arafat was not willing to settle for all of this. Instead, just when the two sides were on the verge of a historic compromise...