Word: intifadas
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...Israel when dealing with its most recent crisis, the Palestinian uprising. Friedman compares the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a fault line that for 20 years was capable of absorbing slight tremors so well that many forgot about its existence. But the earthquake finally struck in the form of the intifada--the Palestinian uprising of anger couched in vows to throw off "Israeldom...
...alluding to the intifada, the Palestinian uprising and the near civilwar between Arab and Jew, between Jew and Jew. An Israeli venture into Lebanon might have taken the spotlight off the impending negotiations for Palestinian elections...
Ullman speculates that the same short-sided combatitive force which is trying to end the intifada by submission and violence dictated Israel's Obeid fiasco. It failed, said Ullman, and has driven a "wedge between Israel and its friends...
...Israeli use of "indiscriminate and excessive" force against Paelstianians. Entitled "Israel and the Occupied Territories, Excessive Force: Beatings to Maintain Law and Order," the report details both the systemic nature and broad scale of Israeli violence against Palestinians. Hundreds have been killed by Israeli forces since December, when the Intifada, as the Palestian uprising is called, began, and thousands more have been brutally beaten, abused, incarcerated and humiliated...