Word: intifadeh
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...deaths of Ze'evi and Zibri illustrate how the intifadeh has taken those who were on the fringes of political credibility and made them symbols capable of rallying entire populations. Before the Aqsa intifadeh, Zibri's P.F.L.P., a faction of Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, was a powerless joke in the West Bank, a has-been group that clung to its Marxist ideology and its naysaying on peace with Israel. Ze'evi was a marginal right-wing extremist who often advocated the "voluntary transfer" of Palestinians out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In death, both have become...
...Zibri had gained relevance even before their murders. When Ze'evi died, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, working to preserve his national unity government, was trying to persuade Ze'evi to withdraw his resignation, tendered two days before. Under Zibri's leadership, P.F.L.P. activists had begun to sit on intifadeh action committees in each Palestinian town alongside leaders of the radical Islamic groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which don't share the P.F.L.P.'s secular ideology but do share the desire to kill Israelis. Despite this activity, Zibri, as the P.F.L.P. leader, continued to sit on the executive committee of Arafat...
...This is no longer an intifadeh," Nusseibeh says. "It?s a convulsion of violence, not a popular movement. There needs to be a rekindling of rational debate, even more so after the attacks in America...
When Palestinian radicals assassinated an Israeli cabinet minister outside his East Jerusalem hotel room last week, they brought the rage of the West Bank and Gaza to a city whose Palestinian neighborhoods have escaped the worst ravages of the year-long Aqsa intifadeh. The tough Israeli response to the murder pushed Palestinian leaders into further bloodthirsty statements that can only perpetuate the cycle of violence. Sari Nusseibeh is one of the few leading Palestinians still prepared to buck the growing extremism and to urge a rejection of the hatred and vengeance that have engulfed the region this past year...
...family that came to Jerusalem with the Caliph Omar 1,300 years ago, Nusseibeh, 52, stands out among the city?s remaining political leaders. He carries intellectual heft as the head of Al-Quds University and wields political clout as the organizer of Jerusalem?s 1987-93 intifadeh, which helped spur Israeli leaders to negotiate with the Palestinians. Nusseibeh is using his position to push a dovish line at a time when extremists have the upper hand...