Word: intifadeh
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...graffiti on the walls mark the territories of clan-based gangs like the Dan-Dan, or personal militias who owe their allegiance to local leaders with nicknames like Baz-Baz. Among the 30,000 residents of the camp, 65% of workers are unemployed, up from 25% before the Aqsa intifadeh kicked off eight months ago. It is estimated that there are 5,000 guns in the camp...
There are good and bad people in Balata too. But the bad people got a leg up from this intifadeh. In the first intifadeh, from 1987 to 1993, Balata was the hot zone, a beacon of Palestinians' willingness to sacrifice. But seven years of Arafat's regime have destroyed that spirit. "People follow the religion of their king," says an Arab proverb. The religion of Arafat's henchmen has been corruption. So the people of Balata have learned to be crooks...
Balata and Nablus are not the only Palestinian communities torn by internal conflict. Tribal, social and regional enmities throughout the Palestinian territories grow more violent by the day. The intifadeh was supposed to free Palestinians from Israeli occupation, but it is fast pushing them into crime, poverty and gang war. Since the arrival of the Palestinian Authority seven years ago, the society of the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been cracking under the dual strains of Arafat's corrupt rule and continued occupation by Israel. The intifadeh took those fissures and blew them apart. This semi-anarchy has alarming...
...unforgiving, and Arafat will find it hard to justify arrests when most Palestinians favor more attacks against Israelis. Sharon promises to defend Israeli citizens, and his Cabinet ministers talk darkly of "removing the immunity" of senior Palestinian Authority officials. With almost 600 people dead in the eight-month Aqsa intifadeh, no one expects the youngsters at the Dolphinarium to be the last to pay the price for peace's ever worsening failure...
...This intifadeh has sent a surging tide of hate flowing from Palestinians to Israelis and from Israelis to Palestinians. The hate doesn't ebb back and forth now; it runs at full flood, overwhelming those who hate and those who don't and those too young to know what hate...