Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boom and bustle came to a rather sudden halt in December 1987, when the intifadeh arose among the Arabs in Israel's occupied territories. Last Christmas only 5,000 visitors -- half the normal turnout -- attended Bethlehem's elaborate holiday observance. In the year since then, an estimated 300 Palestinian Arabs have been killed in the uprising, eleven in the Bethlehem area...
...fact keeps the intifadeh going strong a year after it erupted in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Khaled Tbeilah, 14, who worked in a candy factory to help feed his family when he was not throwing stones at Israeli patrols, became one of the most recent Palestinian "martyrs" on Oct. 18, when a plastic bullet fired by an Israeli soldier in the West Bank city of Nablus killed him. His parents and nine siblings are grieving but are no less determined to fight on against Israel's occupation of their land...
...could turn back the clock to before last December, but he has accepted the violent politicization of his life through a combination of religious faith and nationalism. Despite his grief, he speaks with pride of Khaled's "martyrdom." "Our contribution to the intifadeh," he says, "has moved the Palestinian cause forward...
...beaten." Yet she does not attempt to dissuade her sons from active involvement in the uprising. Opening a photo album, she stares at the face of the Khaled she remembers as a "very quiet boy, obedient and very sensitive." In the next breath she proudly praises him as a "Palestinian nationalist...
...spring Shultz waged a similar single-handed campaign on behalf of a memorandum of agreement that strengthened Israel's unique military and economic ties to the U.S. He resisted suggestions that the U.S. should use the memorandum negotiations to persuade Israel to moderate its strong-arm tactics against the Palestinian intifadeh...