Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem." --Psalm...
...first day, it seemed an exaggeration to say that the intifadeh had returned, that the Palestinians had resumed their six-year, rocks-and-bottle uprising against Israeli occupation. Still, in Jerusalem, stones had flown and sticks had flailed as Palestinian protesters battled Israeli cops. But that was all. By the second day, however, the violence had spread, shots had been fired, four people were dead and the term intifadeh was no longer an overstatement. On Day 3, a new description would be required for the confrontation raging between Israelis and Palestinians. There was no other word...
Putatively, it was all about a hole in the ground, dug by the Israelis in Arab East Jerusalem to complete an ancient tunnel showing off the buried foundations of Judaism's sacred Western Wall. Palestinians considered the digging a provocative incursion into their terrain, but in truth, it was only the match thrown into the tinderbox of accumulated Palestinian fury. For months, Israeli and Palestinian intelligence officials had warned of an impending explosion in the territories. In August, Ali Jirbawi, a political scientist at Bir-Zeit University in the West Bank, said, "Scratch the surface, and you find a state...
...door as a "change [in] the demographic nature of the city," illegal under Geneva Convention laws concerning "occupied territories." This is another ridiculous charge. The tunnel in question has been in place for 25 centuries and opening up its back door does not alter the city's demographics. Secondly, Jerusalem is emphatically not an occupied city. The whole of Jerusalem is the undivided capital of the sovereign state of Israel, as President Clinton himself has affirmed...
Journalistic honesty and accuracy of reporting is always necessary. But in the case of the Middle East in general, and of Israel in particular, the opposite can have explosive consequences. Immediately after Israel opened another entrance to a pre-existing archaelogical site in Jerusalem, the word spread throughout the West Bank and Gaza that Israel was digging under Islamic holy sites in a blatant gesture of hostility towards Israel's Muslim residents. The rumor was a lie, but it nonetheless had a quick and deadly effect. For three days, Palestinian mobs armed with automatic weapons, stones and bottles terrorized Israeli...