Word: intifadehs
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...deep into its kit bag of tricks during the unavailing struggle to quell the eleven-month-old Palestinian revolt. Two of the most feared are called "Cherry" and "Samson," code names for clandestine military teams whose members, garbed in kaffiyehs and speaking Arabic, secretly stalk the leaders of the intifadeh in the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinians charge that the units are actually death squads that murder suspects without provocation. The army refuses to discuss its covert operations against the uprising but vehemently denies it fields hit teams. "Dirty tricks are part of the game," confides a former Cherry member...
Squad members say the job is merely to intimidate and jail the ringleaders of the intifadeh. Specially trained soldiers armed with light, concealable weapons pose as Arabs as they prowl the territories in confiscated cars with West Bank license plates. Their tactics are often brutally simple. In Gaza undercover soldiers jumped from a car and clubbed Palestinian activists who were threatening Arab workers for violating a strike. Palestinian sources say the soldiers have also posed as members of the P.L.O. and beaten up rival Palestinians in attempts to spark internal warfare. Some of the Cherry soldiers even impersonate journalists, nabbing...
...mall on the northern outskirts of Jerusalem. As his lips produce the sound, his fists become the fury, chopping the air and pounding the lectern. "Those who are trying to throw us out of Jerusalem will not be able to move us!" he proclaims. "The Likud will end the intifadeh ((uprising))." Shamir grabs two small Israeli flags and waves them in the air. A photo finish...
...wing Arab parties. "If you vote against the Jews, there will be no peace," he bellows into the microphone. "If you are serious, give us your vote, and you will have rights." Among the crowd, Halad Ali Haj, 28, an out-of-work painter, mutters, "I vote for the intifadeh...
...debilitating status quo. Both Labor's Shimon Peres and Likud's Yitzhak Shamir have defined the election in terms of peace and the Palestinians, but neither candidate offers any plausible solutions. Says Abed Darawshe, who defected from Labor to protest the government's handling of the uprising: "The intifadeh ((uprising)) has divided Israel more than ever. The two big parties simply have not convinced the public that they have the answer...