Word: intifadas
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...orders of local intifada leaders and Muslim preachers, the Palestinian mob attacked the 45 or so police who serve as the security force on the Temple Mount. They set a nearby police station ablaze and barricaded any exits the police might have taken to escape...
...intifada had all but fizzled out, the P.L.O. leadership had completely discredited itself in the eyes of the world by siding with Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf, and the American news media had found more important events to cover than Palestinian rabble rousing. By staging a violent display sure to result in severe casualties and intense media attention, Palestinians rudely reminded the world that they still exist and still can stir up trouble with the best...
...Faoud wasn't on the trip's itinerary. Although we had met days earlier with Radawan Abu Ayaish, a Palestinian journalist said to be the number-two person in the Intifada leadership, I had to seek out contacts with ordinary Palestinians and Israelis...
Those with anything but the strongest leftist leanings are bound to be unsettled by some aspect of the store's political agenda (particularly its recent affinity for the Intifada). But surrounded by a slew of "mainstream" bookstores, Revolution Books offers something truly unique in the Square, and is worth...
...year off working and living on a kibbutz. At the start of college, he maintained his "uncritical support", but soon he began to question his own assumptions. The spring of his sophomore year he organized a celebration for Israel's 40th anniversary. "It was five months after the intifada started, and I had to general feeling of malaise. But I still felt that it was important to affirm and celebrate Israel...