Word: intifadeh
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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...strategy of making the occupation as expensive as possible for Israel, even at great cost to themselves. The Israeli government is replying with collective punishment -- curfews, mass arrests, demolition of homes, destruction of crops, deportations -- but has so far failed to crush the rebellion. In the process, the intifadeh has been transformed from a test of muscle into one of will. "This is a war of attrition," says "Mahmoud," a Palestinian activist, explaining the growing use of fire bombs against the / Israeli military. "We know a few Molotovs are not going to liberate Palestine. But with them we can exhaust...
...With the intifadeh running in a lower gear, large-scale demonstrations and riots have given way to smaller, though just as lethal, clashes between Palestinian activists and Israeli army patrols across the West Bank and Gaza. Some of the confrontations are initiated by "striking forces," groups of young men organized in nearly every Palestinian community. Instead of waiting for spontaneous outbursts, they mount hit-and-run raids designed to keep Israeli soldiers on edge. Other confrontations result from provocations by the army and by the Israeli policy of harsh reaction to the slightest sign of rebellion. Says a senior officer...
Street clashes may mark the front line of the uprising, but at the heart of the resistance lies a passive refusal to cooperate with the occupation. The intifadeh has become a tug of war for economic and psychological advantage. The pervasive commercial strike under which Arab shops open for only three hours a day remains one of the most palpable symbols of Palestinian solidarity. The army has given up trying to break this form of protest...
...measure of calm in the Gaza enclave, but it is taking constant vigilance by 11,000 troops and a regimen of curfews, arrests, beatings and harassment to keep the area's towns and refugee camps from erupting anew. When the local council of Al Bureij resigned under orders from intifadeh's leaders, the Israelis placed the refugee camp under 24-hour curfew for two weeks. The army cut power lines and waterlines, and barred the men from working in Israel for one month. Tax raids conducted block by block netted about $90,000. Says a senior official of the United...
...Jerusalem is reluctantly recognizing that the intifadeh is a fire it may be able to bank but cannot quench. In an unprecedented admission, a senior military officer said recently that while the violence has lessened, he could see no end to the uprising. "There is no return to the pre-December 1987 status quo," he said. The situation "demands that we organize for the long run." On this point, at least, Israelis and Palestinians agree. "The intifadeh has become natural to people," says a shopkeeper in the West Bank town of Anabta. "We will live on a scrap of bread...