Word: intifadas
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...while the Hizballah victory in Lebanon would have given Palestinian militants a lift and emboldened them in arguments with moderates, it's hard to imagine that the latest intifada would have been avoided if Israel had kept its army in southern Lebanon. If they'd stayed, it's more than possible right now that they'd be facing the Hizballah strategy on two fronts...
...generation of Palestinians who waged the first intifada from 1987 into the early 1990s had watched with considerable skepticism as Arafat brought the PLO exile apparatus back from Tunis, installed them as the pashas of the West Bank and Gaza towns handed over to him under Oslo, and promised to negotiate away the Israeli occupation and in its place put a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. By last year, the peace process had delivered precious little of what Arafat had promised his people it would bring. And as he approached his moment of truth at Camp David...
...Rees: That may be the way the Americans and Europeans see it, but Sharon refuses to return to the position Barak was in before the intifada, which resulted in Barak being driven from office by Arafat. Sharon was extremely critical of the offers made by Barak. He doesn't necessarily even need a cease-fire; he just needs to tone down the current violence. The F-16 strikes were condemned as stupid by many Israelis, and the international community was scandalized. But if Sharon had confined himself to the assassinations, helicopter strikes and sending his troops into Palestinian controlled areas...
...life in a prosperous, powerful, peacetime society! In a nation rich enough to be morally incoherent and given to media vapors, language inclines to hysteria. Murder ball? Killer ball? Really? People with no experience to teach them otherwise are dumb enough, self-indulgent enough, to equate recess with the intifada...
...political authority has suffered a lot during the intifada. Palestinians are suffering economically and psychologically, and from severe restriction of movement. The Israeli army has made their lives hell. And Palestinians are not only blaming Israel, they're also blaming the Palestinian Authority for not handling the situation properly, for having no plan to deal with the difficulties created by the intifada. And the intifada has hardened the resolve of the Palestinian militants who believe that the armed struggle is the only way to get the Israelis out of the West Bank and Gaza, which is a problem for Arafat...