Word: intifadas
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...every day for a period of two years 20,000 soldiers have battled violent demonstrators. Anytime that that many people are in a combat situation for such a long time, abuses will occur. The Israeli government would like nothing better than to end the abuses, but, unfortunately, ending the intifada is not solely the decision of the Israeli government...
...poster, but pardon my naivete if I ask what fact is conveyed by a photograph devoid of any context? How do I know that the woman threatened in the poster has not tried to grab the soldier's rifle, as has happened many times during the course of the intifada? And am I just supposed to assume that this one photograph represents a daily occurrence in Israel? Larew's enthusiastic psychoanalysis of the Zealot seems to have dimmed his willingness to judge the situation objectively...
Violations of individual human rights should be seen as a part of a fundamental denial of Palestinian national rights. By condemning Israeli suppression of the intifada, we are not ignoring a "larger context" of justified occupation, but responding indirectly to the new context: protesting Israeli political intractability by drawing attention to the horrific results it produces daily. We must invoke intifada statistics as an act of political protest...
...criticism of Israel surrounding the intifada, we should not lose sight of the real problem--the occupation. And a difficult problem...
...Israeli's turn to accept a Palestinian state. Until the entire Israeli government indicates a willingness to do so, we must oppose the occupation. We can do this by supporting peace movements within Israel--and by crying out against each and every injustice of the two-year intifada...