Word: intifadehs
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...days, raw concrete walls and army patrols sealed off Jalazun from the world. The Palestinian refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank was under curfew as punishment for its violent contributions to the intifadeh (uprising). Electricity was cut; cooking gas dwindled. As the men languished at home, the women organized survival. Around 3 a.m. most days, groups of women sneaked out of the camp and hid in nearby villages. During the day, they bought scarce meat and vegetables; at night they slipped back into Jalazun to feed their families...
...Israelis -- and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat -- should know by now, the intifadeh seems to be running itself. Arafat and other Arab leaders have lent considerable rhetorical support to the uprising, as well as an undetermined amount and of financial aid. Just last week Arafat and Syrian President Hafez Assad held a surprise meeting in Damascus to assert their joint symbolic control over the uprising. The encounter was their first since 1983, whenAssad sent the Palestinian leader into exile after a long feud. "There are no differences among the one family," said Arafat after the meeting. "The outcome ((of the session...
...prestige damaged by the murder of al-Wazir, Arafat evidently thought that making peace with Syria -- a leading exponent of the rejectionist, smash-Israel position -- would help him reaffirm his authority over the P.L.O. Assad, for his part, spotted an opportunity to assert his own championship of the intifadeh by embracing his old enemy. Yet as the pair were declaring their commitment to the rebellion, its true leadership remained where it has been all along: in the hands of the disaffected youths, middle- class shopkeepers, villagers and refugees in the occupied territories...
...intifadeh has given birth to a diffuse and decentralized underground of local popular committees and anonymous coordinators that has survived both the murder of al-Wazir and the arrest of nearly 5,000 Palestinians since December. Many of the local leaders are adherents of one P.L.O. faction or another, but they evidently do not take orders from anyone outside the occupied territories. Rather, decisions made within the occupied territories appear to be approved and ratified by the Palestinian leadership in exile...
...year-old graduate of Israeli jails, Mahmoud has worked since February to stoke the fires of rebellion. His personal allegiance is to Fatah al- Intifadeh, a hard-line, pro-Syrian faction. His first assignment was to transform the informal activism of his home refugee camp into an efficient engine of protest. With seven other Palestinians representing most of the P.L.O. factions and one spokesman for unallied "independents," Mahmoud welded together a series of secret subcommittees charged with various aspects of the rebellion...