Word: intifadeh
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...militia leader wiped the smile off Arafat's lips: he immediately turned around and rushed into his office. For Arafat, last week's swap of Palestinian and other Arab prisoners for a kidnapped Israeli businessman and the bodies of three Israeli soldiers represents a real problem. The three-year intifadeh has left a power vacuum in the West Bank and Gaza that Hizballah, the Beirut-based, Iranian-backed Shi'ite group, has gradually been filling. The prisoner swap, mediated by Germany, boosts Hizballah's support among Palestinians and illustrates the ineffectuality of Arafat's regime, which has fruitlessly demanded that...
...Minister Silvan Shalom is a traveling man. He's met repeatedly with senior Tunisian, Bahraini, and Qatari officials, as well as King Mohammed VI of Morocco and Jordan's King Abdullah. Next week, Shalom will become the first Israeli Foreign Minister to visit Jordan since the onset of the intifadeh more than three years ago. But the trip Shalom wants most of all, to Damascus, remains out of reach. Senior Israeli diplomats believe the Syrians don't want genuine negotiations, but see going through the motions as a way to ease U.S. pressure on Damascus over its sponsorship of terrorist...
...that apply when their soldiers open fire with potentially lethal force - particularly along the controversial new route of the security fence - and when Israeli protesters might be the target. Under the army's rules of engagement, incongruously code-named Purple Lilac, issued at the start of the three-year intifadeh, soldiers can use live ammunition only when they believe their lives are threatened. Human-rights groups say large numbers of unarmed Palestinians have been shot without justification during the intifadeh and that the army does little to investigate the deaths and injuries. But it took the wounding of an Israeli...
...Gaza operations before he was chosen in 1995 to rebuild the organization's VIPprotection unit following the lapses that enabled an assassin to kill Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that year. Dichter was promoted to the top job in 2000 by then Prime Minister Ehud Barak. When the intifadeh broke out five months into Dichter's five-year term, he initiated a string of high-profile counteroperations that impressed Sharon even before he became Prime Minister. To kill Hamas operatives, Dichter had his agents hide explosives in telephone booths and car-seat headrests; he pushed them to cut planning time...
...Israelis have been killed by Palestinians since the start of the intifadeh in September 2000. Of them, 243 have died in Hamas attacks...