Word: intifadehs
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...year-old market is the heartbeat of Jerusalem. Until spring, three years of the intifadeh had brought business to a near crawl as it stoked fears that the 90,000 people who crowd the narrow lanes each week could become targets for Palestinian suicide bombers. Now the market's brisk pulse is back as Jerusalemites respond to five months without a bombing and to the construction of a "separation fence" along the border with the West Bank that they hope walls off terrorism...
...another bomber detonated his charge moments later, in front of the display of pickles and olives. That attack killed 15 people; the bomber's ravaged torso landed on Boneh. Though there were bigger attacks elsewhere in Jerusalem, the two bombings in the crowded alleys of Mahaneh Yehuda during the intifadeh added to its status as a byword for the horrible inevitability of terrorism, and many Israelis simply stopped coming. Boneh almost gave up after his sister Rose and 10 others were killed in January when a bomber struck on a bus near the center of town--one of two successful...
Spirits generally began to turn around in the spring, in the aftermath of Israel's assassination of the two most senior leaders of Hamas. Israelis waited fearfully for the revenge attacks predicted by the Islamic group's leaflets. Surely there would be new additions to the litany of intifadeh attacks. But the assaults never came. If Hamas couldn't unleash a wave of terror after losing its two top men, Israelis figured their army and security services must have been able to rein in the threat. Cafes began to snap back to life...
...intelligence unit estimates that more than 2 million French people now live in 300 of the most dire of these urban ghettos - cut off from mainstream society and beset by domestic violence and religious extremism. This potent mix of economic and social deprivation, combined with unfolding events - the Palestinian intifadeh, the Iraq war and perceived stigmatization of Muslims in the war on terror - has led some young people to channel their anger into outright anti-Semitism. "The perpetrators of anti-Semitic attacks that have been caught have usually been lone petty thugs or informal groups of delinquents," says...
...still determined to plug the weapons pipeline. The tunnels are dug under cinder-block tenements in Shabourah, the refugee camp in Rafah. Home to 90,000 Palestinians, the camp once extended to the border, but dozens of refugee homes have been demolished over the course of the intifadeh to build a 300-yd. buffer zone between camp and border to thwart smugglers. Now, Israeli military officials tell TIME, they hope to extend the buffer to 900 yds., which would mean a destruction of hundreds more refugee homes...