Word: intifadeh
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...Aviv bombing by Hamas. Meanwhile, Hamas today distributed a videotape of a man it said was the suicide attacker who blew up 22 others on a crowded bus; on the tape, Salah Abdel-Rahim Hassan Assawi says he planned the bombing because his brother was killed in the Palestinian intifadeh. At least one witness, however, swore he wasn't the culprit...
...could have been 1987, the early days of the Palestinian intifadeh, all over again. In the dusty, barricaded streets of the Gaza Strip, steel-helmeted Israeli troops played deadly hide-and-seek with bands of rock-throwing Palestinian youths. Three knife-wielding men set upon Israeli settlers, who shot two of the attackers, one fatally. Riots swept through occupied West Bank towns; soldiers fired tear gas and bullets that killed eight Arabs and wounded dozens. The hard-line Islamic movement Hamas called on Arabs to take revenge on Israelis for the massacre of at least 30 Palestinians in Hebron...
...Jabaliya, the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and the birthplace of the anti-Israeli intifadeh, Aziz's family and friends raised a tent for week-long mourning ceremonies. A militant wearing a black hood wielded an ax painted red. let slaughtering the jews be our road to paradise, read a banner on the tent. "We are jealous of Anwar," said one of Aziz's friends. "We feel like cowards because we have not yet done the same thing...
...statistics were reminiscent of the darkest days of intifadeh: about 90 Palestinians and three Israelis injured and a Palestinian and two Israelis killed in the worst violence in the Israeli-occupied territories since Israel and the P.L.O. signed their historic peace accord in Washington in September...
...terrorist and a gruff, tough soldier reckon the time to pluck it had come? Rabin, hero of the Six-Day War, stern enforcer of the occupation, talked about territorial compromise but seemed an unlikely figure to break long-standing taboos. As Defense Minister during the early days of the intifadeh, he vowed to defeat it with "force, might and beatings," but the uprising ended up changing him. Instead, back in February 1988, Rabin told fellow Labor Party members: "I've learned something in the past 2 1/2 months: you can't rule by force over 1 1/2 million Palestinians...