Word: intifadas
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They are frustrated with the military rule of the Israelis which denies them freedom of movement and expression, adequate access to natural resources and makes them victim to frequent arbitrary arrests, torture and detention. Many Palestinians have close relatives or friends who were wrongfully jailed during the Intifada in the 1980s...
...dead, after all, is a principle central to both cultures, and it has given the current wave of violence a self-sustaining life of its own. Israel's security cabinet met Wednesday with a view to abandoning its self-styled "policy of restraint" in dealing with the Palestinian intifada, following the killing of four Israelis in drive-by shootings on Monday. And Palestinian gunmen continued to confront Israeli soldiers and settlers Wednesday despite reports that Yasser Arafat had called on his supporters to stop shooting...
...escalation that Israel has been warning of, in its repeated threat that it will 'know what to do' if violence persists. Throughout the current intifada, the Israelis have been saying they know the individuals behind this. The Israelis blame Fatah's Tanzim militia for most of the violence. Hussein Abayat, the guy who was killed, was fairly powerful in his neighborhood, and the Israelis believe he was behind the attacks on the Gilo neighborhood, which had so frightened Israeli public opinion...
...clear now that no one on either side really knows where to take this. A lot of Palestinian leaders and intellectuals are wondering about their exit strategy and about what they hope to get out of the new intifada. Many are saying privately that they don't have an answer when they go to their leaders with this question. They're just hoping to pressure Israel into making the next move. At the beginning, Hussein Sheikh told us it was the 'battle for final status,' saying the uprising was necessary to strengthen the Palestinians' negotiating position. But right now that...
...Israelis are waiting to see what Arafat will do, because he has to find a balance between the great public support for the intifada and the realization that Palestinians can't carry on with military action without receiving some kind of nasty surprise from the Israelis. When Arafat and Peres met, there was a sense that things were spiraling out of control - shootings of Israeli security guards in Jerusalem, the shooting of three Israeli soldiers in the West Bank and a stepped-up response by the Israeli military. So there was a realization on both sides that things aren...