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...
Establishing his legitimacy will require Abbas to reverse the culture of waste and corruption that ruined the Palestinian economy under Arafat. According to the World Bank, the average Palestinian's income is 36% lower than it was before the intifadeh began. Almost 50% live in poverty, which means a daily income of less than $2 a person...
...will judge Abbas less on his policies toward Israel than on whether he can restore hope to citizens such as Saadi Abed Rabbo, 44, whose home overlooks the Jabalya refugee camp. He used to earn $45 a day on Israeli construction sites, but he has not worked since the intifadeh started. His family can afford meat only once a month. "I hope the new President will get me a job," says Abed Rabbo. "That's all." Making peace won't be the only task waiting for Abbas to fulfill. --With reporting by Jamil Hamad/Ramallah
...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...
...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...