Word: intifadeh
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...twirls skyward, the bullets harmlessly haloing her head. She disarms two of the men with flying darts, evaporates two more with grenades, does in the fifth Goliath with her slingshot and destroys an Israeli helicopter with a metal boomerang shaped like the state of Palestine. Ninja! Gotcha! Intifadeh...
...tough. But with Labor, which signed the Oslo Peace Accords, in his cabinet, world leaders couldn't write off the possibility that Sharon might agree to a peace deal - even as Israeli tanks occupied every Palestinian city in the West Bank. But after more than two years of deadly intifadeh, says Netanyahu, "this election is a repudiation of Oslo." Many Israeli voters rejected more than just the peace agreement. Turnout was the lowest in Israeli history, and the biggest proportionate gains were by the ardently secular Shinui Party. The likely coalition architecture makes the diplomatic task facing Sharon and Netanyahu...
...also blew up bridges in reply to rocket attacks on the nearby Israeli town of Sderot. In the West Bank, Israel bulldozed more than 60 Palestinian shops near Tulkarem. Israeli officials said the shops had been built without permits; Palestinians accused Israel of destroying their economy to suppress the intifadeh...
...extreme hatred for everything Israeli." Said goes on to recount two decades filled with ever-more-violent incidents of humiliation and brutality. The military police, he says, arrested and tortured his father and uncle. They eventually arrested Said, who at 16 had joined the ranks of the young intifadeh rebels. His mother, trying to stop her youngest son, Farid, from hurling stones at Israeli tanks, is said to have been shot in the forehead and killed. Released after four years in jail, Said says he made a life for himself, working as a joiner. He dreamed of happy years...
...young people, all of whom had to serve in the army. The phrase post-Zionism came to describe the country's effort to build an individualistic, high-tech economy. Most Israelis hoped their country would become like anyplace else: ordinary, boring and safe. But two years of violent intifadeh - bloody Israeli occupation of West Bank towns and frequent Palestinian suicide bombings, like the twin attacks in Tel Aviv that claimed 22 lives on Jan. 5 - have snapped Israelis back into the mixture of nationalism and fear at the root of Zionism. What used to be a minority view - the conviction...