Word: intifadehs
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...Once the intifadeh (uprising) began last December, however, Israeli officials singled him out as an instigator. In May, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, acting as Interior Minister, ordered Awad arrested and expelled. Without offering any hard evidence, security officials charged that Awad had incited "civil uprising" and helped write leaflets, distributed by the intifadeh's underground leadership, that advocated civil disobedience. Awad appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which ruled two weeks ago that he had forfeited his right to residence status in Israel once he became a U.S. citizen. This legalism enabled the government to expel Awad without having...
...remarkable reversal for Arafat, who had been snubbed at the Arab parley in Amman just seven months earlier. Last week, as the Arab leaders attempted to forge a united response to the continuing intifadeh (uprising) by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, the P.L.O. once again seemed to be bouncing back in Arab estimation. Earlier in the week, the Palestinian cause (though not the P.L.O.) received a boost from Secretary of State George Shultz during a five-day tour to promote a U.S.-sponsored regional peace plan. "The fate of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism are interdependent," he said...
Arafat can claim little responsibility for the eruption of anger in the occupied territories last December. It took several weeks for the P.L.O. to align itself with the intifadeh's loose-knit command. To this day, the bulk of intifadeh authority resides with local popular committees. Still, the intifadeh's young leaders recognize the P.L.O.'s role as a touchstone for Palestinians who live both inside and outside the occupied territories. The uprising has also improved the P.L.O.'s image. For years, violence and terror were important weapons in the campaign for independence. The intifadeh has changed perceptions, painting...
...administrative detention," the imprisoning of security offenders for six months without trial. In March the army abolished a requirement for judicial review of detention orders; appeals were reinstituted only two weeks ago. As of now, well over a third of the 5,000 people jailed for involvement in the intifadeh have not been charged or tried. The detained population includes doctors, lawyers, labor leaders, | students, human-rights activists, close to 30 journalists, as well as hundreds of suspected members of the outlawed Palestine Liberation Organization and the growing Islamic fundamentalist movement...
Justice is almost as harsh for Israelis accused of supporting the intifadeh. Last February the authorities closed down the tiny left-wing newspaper Derech Hanitzotz (Way of the Spark), which was known for its pro-Arab views. Eventually all six of the paper's editorial staffers -- five Jews and one Arab -- were arrested. Israel accused two of the publication's female editors of membership in the illegal Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Remanded for trial, the journalists have been held without bail in a women's prison, where inmates last week violently assaulted them...