Word: intifadas
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...Hamas has had help from Hezbollah for years. But when the Aqsa intifada erupted last fall, Hezbollah's leaders saw a chance to boost their prestige in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and to expand their brand of Islamic revolution to the gates of Jerusalem, Islam's third holiest city. They aren't keen to share the spotlight with Hamas. In the past few months, Hezbollah canceled the training of Hamas operatives in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and in Iran. Hezbollah is still training Palestinians, but when it sends them back to the Gaza Strip or West Bank, they...
...always been to kill the peace process. The achievement of the Palestinian Authority is that Israelis are absolutely united now in not trusting any Palestinian. The idea of reconciliation between Israel and the Palestinians is not only dead; it's buried. What we're seeing now is not an intifada any longer. The intifada, too, is over - now we're seeing something that those in the military academies would call a "low-intensity...
...There is a sense in which that's true. But the important thing is the matter of degree. The U.S. would like to see our Arab allies, such as Egypt and Jordan, do more to influence the Palestinians. Everyone has a role to play here, and the intifada causes them domestic political trouble, too. And those states are obviously asking the U.S. to do what it can to restrain Sharon...
...Sneh, both of the Labor party. But neither was complaining about the principle of hitting the Syrians. They were concerned about the timing of the air strike, because it occurred during the visit to Israel of Jordan's foreign minister - the first Arab minister to visit here since the intifada began. And Peres and Sneh though this might not be the best moment to drop bombs on the Syrians. Even then, a number of other Labor party ministers voted...
...Israel. I am disappointed to find that not everyone is as generous. Some Palestinians and their supporters would insist, as Doshi does, that most Israelis “continue to live uninterrupted lives,” contrasting them with the Palestinians who have all known someone killed in the intifada, who have all been touched by the violence. They are perhaps unaware of the literally dozens of bombs that have been set in marketplaces, on buses at busy junctions or at a bus stop where high school students wait for their ride to school...