Word: intifadas
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...merely the beginning. Strauss and Newport steal songs from the thirties--"Forget Your Rubles, Come On Get Preppy," disco--"Keep Him Alive" (a prayer for the President), and even summer camp as a Palestinian delegate to the peace process sings "Hello, Mullah, hello Fatah, here I am at intifada...
...while the cranky columnist complains about the Israeli "amen corner," he had been, until the onset of the Intifada, an advocate of a pro-Israel policy. The Intifada, he argues, convinced him that there were strong arguments against Israeli claims...
News reports of violence in Israel, though, are not outright lies. The intifada exists. Palestinians do throw stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli targets, stab Israeli soldiers and civilians, and--increasingly--shoot and kill Israeli settlers travelling in the West Bank and Gaza. The Israeli military does respond with arrests and occasionally with beatings and bullets. Israeli settler groups have recently taken to vigilante acts of vandalism against Palestinians...
Since the intifada began in December 1987, 18 Jewish soldiers and civilians have been killed in the territories. During the same period, 1,326 Palestinians have been killed, 708 by Israeli security forces and 618 by fellow Palestinians in what has become known as the "intrafada...
...Palestinian-Israeli violence does occur, however, it is for the most part limited to certain areas--the West Bank, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem--and to those most intimately connected with the conflict--Israeli soldiers and settlers and the Palestinian youths who engage in most of the violence of the intifada. If you're not in one of these high-risk groups, life is relatively normal...