Word: intifadas
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...Israeli professor well known for his support of Palestinian rights told a Coolidge Hall audience yesterday that the Intifada is a democratic organization fighting to restore human rights taken away by the Israeli government...
...Intifada has two purposes," said Israel Shahak, a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. "To struggle against oppression and to liberate for freedom and democratization of Palestinian society," he said...
...facts speak for themselves. Since the intifada began just over two years ago, almost 600 Palestinians have been killed, about 2000 imprisoned without trial and 58 deported in violation of international law. Divide those figures by the number of days and you see just how routine Israeli human rights abuses really are. Denial is not a good option for the Zealots...
...checked the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and the indexes of eight major newspapers for the period since the intifada began. I found precisely one article on the subject by Dershowitz--an opinion piece in The Los Angeles Times that ran under the headline, "Given the Full Picture, Few Can Fault Israel...
When the piece ran, the intifada was two months old and the death toll was 54. Dershowitz argued that--shootings and tear-gassings aside--the Israeli judiciary had "reacted magnificently." That's nice. If you're shot and killed, you can always...