Word: intifadeh
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fayez used to live in Beit Jala. The families have much in common. Each has young daughters, two for the Simons, three for the Zeidans, all very cute. Both wives are pregnant. But more than a valley separates them. The Simons are Israelis; the Zeidans are Palestinians. Throughout the intifadeh, Palestinian gunmen from Beit Jala have periodically shot at and shelled Gilo. Israeli forces have retaliated by shelling and destroying houses in Beit Jala. One of those destroyed belonged to the Zeidans...
Every day Fayez Zeidan, 36, wanders around Bethlehem looking for work. He seldom finds it. Before the intifadeh, which began in September 2000, he was a construction worker in Israel and labored side by side with Israelis. "In those days the mutual confidence was so great," he says. "We used to go to Israeli restaurants and cities and take weekend picnics without being questioned." No longer. Once the intifadeh put a stop to easy transit from the West Bank into Israel, Fayez lost his job. "To be honest with you, we live on charity," he says. His small two-bedroom...
Bush has spent his presidency avoiding Bill Clinton's policy of hands-on, round-the-clock engagement in the Middle East, instead allowing the adversaries to settle scores for themselves. But with the death toll now past 1,500--higher than that of the first intifadeh, which lasted from 1987 until 1993--U.S. intervention has become a strategic necessity. The conflict threatens to derail the Administration's plans to open the next phase in the war on terror--in particular, its desire to take on Iraq. If Bush were to allow the escalating combat between the Israelis and the Palestinians...
...were no more ruthless than Washington's war against al-Qaeda. Israeli leaders wonder how Washington expects them to do business with Arafat, who only two years ago rejected a Clinton-brokered deal that would have given Palestinians 90% of the occupied territories, and instead launched the latest intifadeh. Both Arabs and Israelis suspected Bush of expediency: the President didn't pay much attention to their war until it impinged...
MIDDLE EAST Despite Fresh Attacks, Talks Still Have a Chance Israeli and Palestinian security officials met U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni to discuss the plan drawn up last year by CIA director George Tenet, which requires withdrawal to positions held before the start of the Aqsa intifadeh 18 months ago. The two sides failed to reach agreement, and the Israelis called a halt when a bomber killed himself and three others near shops in West Jerusalem, only a day after a similar attack on a bus killed seven. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat condemned the attacks. After Zinni met Israeli Prime Minister...