Word: intifadeh
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Hizballah's growing role in the intifadeh troubles Israeli officials, as does Islamic Jihad's recent assertiveness. Unlike Hamas, Islamic Jihad is not led by easily targeted, high-profile chiefs. When Israel fired retaliatory missiles at a couple of Islamic Jihad offices last week, it injured 10 people but did not kill any of the group's leaders. Meanwhile, Islamic Jihad and Hamas fighters are focusing on soldiers and settlers in Palestinian areas instead of hitting Israeli towns, Hamas leaders tell TIME. The shooting of an Israeli woman and her four daughters near a Gaza settlement two weeks...
...file of the Likud. No doubt some Likudniks reacted to the current lull by thinking, Things are going so well--why give the Palestinians anything? Others believed that any concession would be a sign of weakness (68% of Palestinians attributed Sharon's Gaza plan to the "success" of their intifadeh, according to a recent poll...
...million viewers, the network is being imitated across the region. Al-Jazeera has angered Arab governments by giving airtime to rebel movements and freedom advocates and tackling taboo topics like polygamy and apostasy. And Arab opinion has been immeasurably influenced by al-Jazeera's coverage of the Palestinian intifadeh and the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But nothing has made al-Jazeera so famous as the journalistic hospitality it has extended to Osama bin Laden through the al-Qaeda leader's interviews and doomsday warnings. The company's executives say that bin Laden's words are genuine scoops...
...messages are filled with a double language. His followers, they say, can decipher his words as a call to furtively spread fundamentalist Islam in society under the cover of modernism and integration. Critics have denounced as anti-Semitic Ramadan's recent critique of "Jewish French intellectual" reaction to the intifadeh. They were appalled when he suggested last year a "moratorium," rather than an outright ban, on the stoning of adulterers in order to consider the legitimacy of the act. (In 2003, his Islamist brother Hani was dismissed as a schoolteacher after defending the stoning of women in Le Monde...
Despite the deaths of more than 2,400 of their kin since this intifadeh began in September 2000, Palestinians are little closer to the dream of an independent state. Yet there seems to be no shortage of young Palestinians willing to die for the cause. Even though Israel routinely kills or captures militants, Hamas' al-Qassam Brigade is always able to replenish its ranks. Its actions inspire the admiration of Palestinians who feel that violent resistance gives them back some of their lost self-esteem. At a demonstration in downtown Gaza, I met a skinny 12-year...