Word: intifadas
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...signed a petition refusing to serve in the West Bank and Gaza, where they say they are forced to uphold a morally untenable occupation. Their numbers may be small, but their action would have been almost unthinkable six months ago as Israelis closed ranks in the face of an intifada viewed even by the Israeli peace camp as a treacherous betrayal by Arafat...
...support for Israel in the course of the current Palestinian intifada, for example, aroused deep hostility on the streets of Cairo, Amman and Riyadh, and boycott calls threatened McDonald's revenues. So, nimble local marketing executives found novel ways to reclaim their market share. In Saudi Arabia, the local license-holders for McDonald's came up with a unique promotion during Ramadan two years ago - giving 25 cents (American) out of every sandwich sold to that country's 'Al Quds Intifada Fund,' which supported Palestinian children's hospitals treating casualties of the uprising. And in Egypt, local marketers chose singer...
...Needless to say, neither the Saudi intifada promotion nor Egypt's choice of pop star had head office approval, and the Abdel Rahim campaign was quickly dropped following protests by the American Jewish Committee. Still, they appeared to have been sound local business decisions in consumer markets where anti-U.S. anger had threatened McDonald's revenues. Mohammed Emam, marketing coordinator of the Saudi company that owns the local franchise told a Saudi newspaper, "We want to prove to people that even though McDonald's is an American franchise, it cares about the plight of the Palestinians...
...attacks have hardened Israel's resolve, alienated the West, brought harsh repression down on ordinary Palestinians and put the goals of statehood and Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza even further beyond reach. There's a grim consensus in Palestinian society today that the al-Aqsa intifada has achieved little for their people - but that doesn't stop the militants who flip the equation by asking what will be achieved by yielding now, in the absence of any Palestinian gains. And Yasser Arafat, pinned down in his office in Ramallah by Israeli tanks, appears to be simply bobbing...
...intellectuals such as human rights campaigner Mustafa Barghouti have launched a campaign to strengthen Palestinian democracy - a direct challenge to the authoritarian cronyism of Arafat's regime - and a shift back towards non-violent protest against Israel's occupation in what they consider to be an "overly-militarized intifada." And Arafat's own point-man in Jerusalem, the philosophy professor Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, has ruffled feathers by publicly urging his countrymen to drop the demand for the right of return by 3 million Palestinian refugees to Israel proper - a demand Arafat himself continues to evince as an article of faith...