Word: intifadehs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...country where neither had ever been overpopular. But Netanyahu also came across as a demagogue who did not speak out when his supporters circulated a poster portraying then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in a Nazi SS uniform. Netanyahu may or may not have changed his spots; the intifadeh, however, has undoubtedly made Israel more susceptible to his charms...
...glaziers of Jerusalem will be rich if the intifadeh goes on like this. They charge $1,500 to install car windows that are shatter-resistant. People are paying. The Palestinian uprising is 2 1/2 years old. It has hardened into a dreary, bitter ritual. The reciprocal stoning and beating obey Newton's Third Law of Motion--for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Each side has found its threshold of acceptable suffering and cruelty...
MIDDLE EAST A Roundabout Route to Peace Violence spiraled further, with a series of devastating air strikes and raids by Israel and shootings and bombings from Palestinians. Dozens died last Friday, the bloodiest day since the intifadeh began. As casualties mounted, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon conceded that cease-fire negotiations would have to take place without the seven-day period of total calm that he had demanded. The U.S. said that envoy Anthony Zinni would return to the region this week for another attempt at brokering peace...
...intifadeh is evolving into all-out war. While suicide bombings continue, Palestinians are also mounting well-planned attacks, killing Israeli soldiers at checkpoints and bases in Israeli territory. Israel has upped its retaliation as well...
...return for a withdrawal from occupied territories. But violence continued, and hours after a Palestinian woman blew herself up at a checkpoint, Israel Defense Forces mounted an assault on West Bank refugee camps for the first time in the 17 months of fighting since the declaration of the Aqsa intifadeh...