Word: intifadeh
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...years old," she says. Rebecca's parents raised her to be politically conscious (her mother is a professor, her dad a lawyer). In high school and college, she campaigned for women's rights before turning her attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Last summer she waded into the intifadeh, living in the occupied territories and engaging in "loving and nonviolent action against the Israeli government...
...evening last summer I was chatting in a bar in Crete with a doctor from Tel Aviv, who was on vacation with his family. We talked about the Palestinian friends he hadn't seen since the start of the Aqsa intifadeh, his missions as a reservist in the Israeli army. I asked him how long he was staying in Crete. Just a few days, he said, then added wistfully, "Sometimes we just have to get away...
...financial support is also a sign that ideology has been swamped by the chaos of the intifadeh and the rise of a gangster class of guns for hire. Officials from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority met in Cairo last week to discuss an agreement to end suicide bombings. But Arafat canceled plans to send his usual troubleshooter, Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Mahmoud Abbas, and sent lower-level officials instead. Hamas responded by pulling back its top man, Khaled Meshaal. Even the limited progress reported at the meeting was condemned in a communique issued in Gaza by Hamas and Islamic...
...Mitzna was a military golden boy, wounded in Israel's 1967 and 1973 wars. But during the controversial 1982 Lebanon War, Mitzna wrote to his chiefs demanding the dismissal of then-Defense Minister Sharon. As commander in the West Bank, he left his job two years into the first intifadeh, saying he'd had enough. To left-wingers, those are admirable stands. Yet then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin persuaded Mitzna to withdraw the Lebanon dismissal letter, and people close to him say he quit the West Bank job because he was just tired of criticism from the left and right...
...Bush's Iraq policy is to eradicate the threat from weapons of mass destruction. A war in Iraq, many protesters think, would "really" be about two things: access to Iraqi oil and helping Israel by neutralizing an enemy that's poured more than $15 million into the Palestinian intifadeh. The same arguments are common in Europe and the Arab world. The Administration could simply ignore the doubters. But if it's smart, it will find ways to remove Israel and oil from the discussion and so win broader support...