Word: intifadeh
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...were arrested as part of crackdown on al-Hayeb's alleged drug ring. The drug-espionage scandal isn't the only finger Hizballah has in Israel's pie. The Iranian-backed Shia group is advertising on its al-Manar satellite television station that relatives of Palestinians killed in the intifadeh can claim cash payouts. Al-Manar, which is popular among Palestinians, has begun broadcasting details of the banks where payouts can be claimed and the documents necessary to prove eligibility for the money. Disbursements are mostly for educational and health expenses; Palestinians whose homes are demolished by Israel can apply...
...West Bank has entered a new phase. The big battles of the spring are over, and Israel's soldiers are now in or around every major Palestinian town. Tibon's Nahal Brigade has the toughest assignment in the West Bank, guarding this city where 80% of the intifadeh's suicide bombings have been planned. Fighting is more intense right now in Gaza - last week Israeli troops there killed 11 and wounded as many as 75 - but Tibon's task is more difficult and nuanced: he must track Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank without starving or killing innocents or getting...
...worshipped side by side. Then in 1994 a radical Israeli settler, Dr. Baruch Goldstein, mowed down 29 Muslims at prayer in thetomb. Custody shifted to a complex scheme granting each side access to parts or all of the tomb on different days but avoiding their meeting. Since the latest intifadeh, the arrangement continues, but the site, hedged about with checkpoints and razor wire in a neighborhood under strict military curfew, presents a message of piety inextricable from violence and mistrust...
...attacks, given their proximity to Palestinian communities and the animus their presence evokes, Israelis are still moving into the territories for ideological reasons or for the financial incentives the government offers, such as income-tax breaks and cut-rate mortgages. Since the outbreak of the latest Palestinian uprising, or intifadeh, two years ago, the settler population in the West Bank has risen 4.8%, more than double the increase in the overall number of Israelis. In the 20 Gaza settlements, 242 new families have moved in, adding to the 1,155 families there. Only 25 families have left. Twelve years...
...guarantees a regular ear bashing from his wife. In a wider context, however, it's even more serious: luxury hotels across the country?a legacy of the Israeli-Jordanian peace accords of 1994 and the subsequent joint tourism projects undertaken a few years before the start of the second intifadeh?are nearly empty, and the tourist sites deserted. Any passing traveler can currently walk into a five-star property and pick up a room fit for King Abdullah II himself for less than $50 a night. "It's been a difficult season," admits Jordan's Minister of Tourism, Taleb Rifai...