Word: intifadeh
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When Jalal Sharaf casts his vote for a new Palestinian President this Sunday, he won't pay much attention to the candidates' positions on Israel or the future of the peace process. Sharaf, 41, has worked only six months since the beginning of the intifadeh in September 2000. He lives with his wife and eight children in a shack on Block 4 of the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza. They subsist on $7 a day scrounged from relatives. Desperate though it sounds, the family's predicament is hardly rare in Gaza's slums--and it is why Sharaf plans...
...Fatah, the most powerful Palestinian party--seemed likely to roll up a big victory in the Jan. 9 election for Palestinian President. But last week Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his part in deadly shooting attacks early in the four-year intifadeh, announced his candidacy for the job too. Barghouti, a former moderate who now represents the radical wing of Fatah, has much greater support among ordinary Palestinians than the more moderate--and more aloof--Abbas does. At 45, Barghouti also has the backing of younger Fatah leaders who are pressing...
...INTIFADEH Following a year of riots by Palestinians against Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, Arafat renounces terrorism and calls for negotiations with Israel...
WAVE OF VIOLENCE A deadly second intifadeh begins...
...failure of the summit. Two months later, when Palestinian riots in Jerusalem expanded into a new uprising against Israel, Arafat embraced the ferment, choosing not to use his forces to constrain Palestinian militants, as he had from time to time during the previous years of self-rule. The resulting intifadeh has left almost 3,000 Palestinians and more than 1,000 Israelis dead and made the possibility of peaceful coexistence seem remote...