Word: intifadeh
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...described in the popular carol. It is instead a city whose 35,000 residents have traditionally been joined by so many pilgrims and tourists that there is often no room in the inns. But the boom and bustle came to a rather sudden halt in December 1987, when the intifadeh arose among the Arabs in Israel's occupied territories. Last Christmas only 5,000 visitors -- half the normal turnout -- attended Bethlehem's elaborate holiday observance. In the year since then, an estimated 300 Palestinian Arabs have been killed in the uprising, eleven in the Bethlehem area...
...sadness extends from Bethlehem to nearby Jerusalem and many West Bank towns, where Christians, who are overwhelmingly Arabs, say they too will be forgoing glittering displays and traditional festivities. Most of the country's Christian leaders see no end to the intifadeh. They fear that their flocks, already reduced by a century of emigration to the West, could gradually decline into virtual extinction, as has already happened to the once grand Greek Orthodox community in Muslim Turkey...
...cause, the sons of Palestine are ready to die. That simple but powerful fact keeps the intifadeh going strong a year after it erupted in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Khaled Tbeilah, 14, who worked in a candy factory to help feed his family when he was not throwing stones at Israeli patrols, became one of the most recent Palestinian "martyrs" on Oct. 18, when a plastic bullet fired by an Israeli soldier in the West Bank city of Nablus killed him. His parents and nine siblings are grieving but are no less determined to fight...
...large family in their 400-year-old two-room ancestral home in the Casbah of Nablus. He lived for his children, hoping they would be educated enough someday to become doctors and teachers. Then politics intruded into his quiet life and, given the frequent general strikes called by intifadeh leaders, he decided to quit his job in Israel. The $130 a month he now earns as a guard at a religious school is not nearly enough to provide even modest comfort. "Financially," says Abu Ali, as he is called, "I am tired...
...Shultz waged a similar single-handed campaign on behalf of a memorandum of agreement that strengthened Israel's unique military and economic ties to the U.S. He resisted suggestions that the U.S. should use the memorandum negotiations to persuade Israel to moderate its strong-arm tactics against the Palestinian intifadeh...