Word: intifiada
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...gunmen, militiamen riding around in trucks and so on had more than a whiff of Lebanon in the 1970s. And that's a serious problem for Arafat. When you take that rising militancy together with the anger expressed at Arafat's own administration for not protecting Palestinians fighting intifiada, it appears that his control has been severely weakened. Early on in the intifada, I believe he could have stopped it immediately if he really wanted to. But that wasn't going to be true forever, and things may now have passed the point where he can simply end it immediately...
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