Word: intifadehs
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...that other young Palestinian women have joined the confrontations. Rana spends her days reading books of philosophy and poetry. Like all youngsters in the occupied territories, she has missed a half-year of formal education because the Israelis shut down government-run Palestinian schools as collective punishment for the intifadeh. Her mother keeps her inside the house for safety and to help with housework...
Rana dislikes politics; she wants to be a writer "to convey the pains and hopes of human beings." Her poems, however, catch the pervasiveness of the intifadeh: "In its cage the bird is sad/ Does it cry because it is in exile?/ . . . Or is it the grievance against the rancorous enemy?" Though the death of her brother came as a terrible shock, Rana insists that it has not made her hate Jews. "But I do hate the occupation. If the Israelis are really bothered by the Palestinians hating them, then they should leave the West Bank and Gaza...
...Adel, 19, is a veteran of the streets. At 16 he joined the Shabiba, an illegal P.L.O.-affiliated youth group, and later he led a protest strike and was jailed twice. When the intifadeh caught fire, he moved to the front line of the shabab, the young militants who keep the rebellion alight. Last winter the Israeli authorities threatened to demolish his family's home if he did not turn himself in. He complied and spent 8 1/2 months under administrative detention. At one point, he and two of his brothers shared a tent in the harsh desert camp...
...marriage. A dedicated nationalist, he will settle for nothing less than an end to Israel and the establishment of a Palestinian state in its place; he is furious that Yasser Arafat is talking about recognizing Israel's right to exist. "If Arafat asks the Palestinians to stop the intifadeh, we will show him the back of our hands," Adel says. "I am willing to sacrifice. I am convinced that we are going...
...P.L.O., the timing could not be more favorable. The meeting will come only a week before the first anniversary of the Palestinian intifadeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. That uprising, more than any other event, has thrust the Palestinian issue to the forefront of the international agenda. Just as repressive Israeli measures altered some perceptions about the Palestinians and generally bolstered international sympathy for their cause, Shultz's refusal to grant a visa put Arafat in the headlines and renewed debate on whether the U.S. should acknowledge the P.L.O. as the sole representative of the Palestinian...