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	Al-Aqsa Intifada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The al-Aqsa Intifada (Arabic:,انتفاضة الاقصى, transliteration: Intifadat Al-Aqsa; Hebrew: אינתיפאדת אל אקצה (or אינתיפאדת אל-אקצה with a hyphen), transliteration: Intifadat al-Aqtsa) is the wave of violence that began in September 2000 between Palestinian Arabs and Israelis; it is also called the Second Intifada (see also First Intifada).
		Palestinians consider the intifada to be a war of national liberation against foreign occupation, whereas Israelis consider it to be a terrorist campaign.
		Since the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada and its emphasis on suicide bombers deliberately targeting civilians riding public transportation (buses), the Oslo Accords are viewed with increasing disfavor by the Israeli public.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al-Aqsa_Intifada (7972 words)

	The Great 'Intifada' Deception
		The word "intifada" creates the false impression of a popular uprising based on mass demonstrations, and diverts attention from terrorist bombs and snipers hiding behind children.
		In this false "intifada" framework, the Israeli decision to isolate Palestinian cities and villages is seen as brutal repression and collective punishment, rather than a vitally necessary measure to keep terrorists away from Israeli cities.
		The term "intifada" should be dropped by political leaders and in the official radio and television broadcasts.
	www.cdn-friends-icej.ca /isreport/march01/deception.html (834 words)

	E-Notes: Israel's Military Dilemma - FPRI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Israel’s strategy formulation for its military reaction to the Al Aksa intifada begun by the Palestinians in Fall 2000 was profoundly affected by the Israeli Defense Forces’ experience in occupying parts of Lebanon from 1982 to 2000.
		The IDF’s strategy in dealing with the Al Aksa intifada combines methods it used during the first intifada, which began in December 1987 and was ended with the 1993 Oslo accord, with the guerrilla-type warfare it used in occupying south Lebanon.
		Given that the 1980’s intifada and the current one are violent internal uprisings within Israel’s borders, the transfer of army units into parts of Israel is an act of self-defense correlated to an offensive military preemptive strategy.
	www.fpri.org /enotes/middleeastafrica.20020510.romirowsky.israelmilitarydilemma.html (1223 words)

	The violence in the Mideast has become a war of images, in which the press is the key to victory.
		My sense is that, rather than jeopardize their already tenuous access to the Palestinian territories or endanger their employees by appearing to collaborate with the enemy, many of the media covering the Intifada adjust by simply "not seeing" things or by finding elaborate justifications for ignoring stories that would displease their hosts in the territories.
		I was in Israel for several weeks during a lull in the violence, staying in a hotel in downtown Jerusalem full of press attracted by a special $80 a night "journalist's rate" and by the Israeli press center on the ground floor, which offered free Internet connections, juice, cake, and espresso.
		And we see it now abundantly in the Intifada, where Yasser Arafat (who stays very far away from the "front-lines" himself) can be quite confident that Palestinian parents will proffer their children to draw Israeli fire -- mainly for the benefit of the Western media.
	www.bjeny.org /225.htm (3089 words)

	Myths & Facts Online - The “al-Aksa Intifada”
		During the "al-Aksa intifada," the number of Palestinian casualties has been higher than the figure for Israelis; however, the gap has narrowed as Palestinian suicide bombers have used increasingly powerful bombs to kill larger numbers of Israelis in their terror attacks.
		Perhaps the most vivid image of the "al-Aksa intifada" was the film of a Palestinian father trying unsuccessfully to shield his son from gunfire.
		One of the unfortunate results of the violence during the "al-Aksa intifada" has been the allegations of Israeli abuse against Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/myths/mf19a.html (7699 words)

	Intifada has Israel scraping up every shekel (February 08, 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On the other hand, the Palestinian Authority claims Israel owes it $8 billion for damages the intifada has caused to Palestinian trade and wages lost from workers barred from their jobs in Israel.
		Israeli officials worry that the E.U. announcement may be a prelude to a formal claim for compensation.
		Israel froze the tax transfers shortly after the intifada began, arguing that the Palestinian Authority would use the money to pay the salaries of its security services, which have aided and even led attacks on Israel.
	www.jewishsf.com /bk020208/1b.shtml (761 words)

	Understanding the Breakdown of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, by Lt. Col. Jonathan D.H.
		This is the intifada of the return to the primacy of the village, the home, and the key.
		In an article in Al Sabah, the official newspaper of the PA, Yasser Khalil Salah referred to the approaching event and to its theme - Jerusalem, as well as to the launching of the "jihad and intifada campaign" against Israel.
		It (the intifada) is not a mass movement separate from the Authority or which started spontaneously.
	www.jcpa.org /jl/vp486.htm (4766 words)

	The Organization for Democratic Action POB 41199
		Within Israel, the intifada now taking place is a spontaneous popular uprising, as yet without leaders and without specific demands.
		This intifada too has had its harbingers: the events at Um al-Sahali in April 1998; those at al-Roha in September 1998; those at Lod in June 1999.
		In all these instances, people showed they were ready to confront the police in order to defend their homes and the little that is left of their lands.
	www.zmag.org /odapospap.htm (3285 words)

	Palestinian Authority Communications Minister says Al Aksa Intifada was planned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In his speech Al-Faluji stated that the Al-Aqsa Intifada was premeditated, and was the Palestinian response to their failure to achieve their goals at the Camp David negotiations.
		Whoever thinks that the Intifada broke out because of the despised Sharon’s visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, is wrong, even if this visit was the straw that broke the back of the Palestinian people.
		This Intifada was planned in advance, ever since President Arafat’s return from the Camp David negotiations, where he turned the table upside down on President Clinton.
	www.eretzyisroel.org /~jkatz/planned.html (718 words)

	Latest News
		Since the beginning of the Al-Aksa Intifada in September 2000, Israel has agreed to seven U.S.-brokered cease-fires, all of which were broken by Arafat.
		The Palestinian answer was to choose the path of terror, and begin the planned and organized Al-Aksa Intifada that began in September 2000.
		The Palestinians began the Al-Aksa Intifada in a cynical attempt to reject peace overtures by Israel and use terror and violence as a negotiating tool.
	www.hadassah.org /education/content/HotTopics/Isr-Palst/antiisrael5.html (1376 words)

	Think-Israel
		Allah, whom the Muslims claim as their god, the former pagan moon god, Zin, is not the G-d of the Jews, nor of the Christians - despite the Muslim effort to co-mingle the various religions.
		That was the end of the intifada on the Egyptian side - while on Israeli side, the fighting continued, grew worse and more were killed.
		A little honest research could have told this trio of 'spin' that the intifada was pre-planned as was the one in 1987.
	www.think-israel.org /winston.chictrib.html (2450 words)

	ipedia.com: Al-Aqsa Intifada Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The al-Aqsa, or Second, Intifada is the intifada that began in 2000 between Israel and the Palestinians.
		The al-Aqsa, or Second, Intifada is the intifada (the wave of violence and political conflict) that began in 2000 between Israel and the Palestinians.
		Following the appointment of Abu Mazen, the USA have accepted the Road Map for Peace — the Quartet's plan to end the violent intifada by disbanding the terrorist organizations and the establishment of a democratic and peaceful Palestinian state.
	www.ipedia.com /al_aqsa_intifada_1.html (4349 words)

	Solving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An Internationalist Perspective
		THE AL-AKSA Intifada erupted because Palestinians, despairing of negotiations as a path to their national aims, chose to confront Israel on the streets.
		Through the entire period of the first intifada, the Palestinian leadership in Tunis was busy taking the very same course that Egypt had under Sadat: to achieve national goals by wedding itself to American interests, instead of combating them.
		Strangely, despite the al-Aqsa intifada, the Israelis have not ceased to view the PA as an ally in combating Islamic fundamentalism.
	www.hanitzotz.com /challenge/65/talk.html (2753 words)

	Today’s Arab Israelis, Tomorrow’s Israel - Policy Review, No. 106 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		That is because, as the “al-Aksa intifada” confirmed by enlisting the participation of many Israeli Arabs and the vociferous support of even more, the Israeli-Palestinian struggle already has penetrated to within “Israel proper.” This expansion feeds on the rapid growth of Israel’s Arab population and the deepening of that population’s Palestinian national identification.
		In early September 1999 — 13 months prior to intifada II — police arrested five Israeli Arabs for car bomb blasts in Tiberias and Haifa.
		Intifada II began on September 29, and Israeli Arabs quickly joined.
	www.policyreview.org /apr01/rozenman_print.html (4145 words)

	AJN - Has 11 September killed the intifada? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As the Gulf war put an end to the first intifada, the terrorist attack in New York and Washington, and the US retaliation within an international coalition, seems to be the key trigger for the end of the second intifada.
		Even if Al-Aqsa intifada is over, this is no guarantee that politicians will learn all these lessons and put aside their demands.
		If Al-Aqsa intifada does prove to have ended as a result of the terror attacks in America, what is needed is a guarantee that we will not go back to the policies of violence and counter-violence.
	www.ajn.com.au /pages/archives/intifada/01c-intifada-01-jd.html (721 words)

	American Committee on Jerusalem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Adding to the tensions today was the fact that the current conflict had started at Al Aksa, although for much of the 10 months that have since passed, Jerusalem's Old City has been relatively trouble free.
		SUNDAY'S CLASHES between Palestinians and Israelis on the sacred territory of Al Haram Al Sharif is the result of the Israeli supreme court's reckless decision to permit radical Israelis to lay a "symbolic" cornerstone for the Third Temple in Jerusalem.
		The current Intifada has been named "Al-Aqsa Intifada," and has received enormous support in the Muslim world because of the success of the Palestinians to attribute to it characteristics of a struggle over the holy sites.
	www.acj.org /july/July_30.htm (5059 words)

	IsraelActivism.com -- The Website of Hasbara Fellowships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		During the "al-Aksa intifada" Israeli journalists were warned against going to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and some received telephone threats after publishing articles critical of the PA leadership.
		In November 2000, for example, the Palestinian Journalist's Union complained that the Associated Press was presenting a false impression of the "al-Aksa intifada." The Union called AP's coverage a conscious crime against the Palestinian people and said it served the Israeli position.
		Candid members of the media admitted that coverage of the intifada was skewed.
	www.israelactivism.com /resources/factsheets/factsheets/media.asp (4730 words)

	The EU’s Aid to Terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In an earlier address in New York, she said it is “an open secret within the European Parliament that EU aid to the Palestinian Authority has not been spent correctly.
		It sounds as if Schroeder, a 25-year-old who has already shed her Green illusions, is in the grip of a laudable idealism that’s still mixed with baffled naivete.
		As for her notion of the Al-Aksa Intifada as a proxy war between Europe and the United States, it’s both compelling and questionable—more compelling in regard to countries like France and Germany, less so in regard to countries like Britain and Spain.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=11687 (583 words)

	AEI - Short Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Reliving the bloody events of three-plus years of intifada gives one the sickening feeling of watching a train wreck in slow motion.
		One column quotes the announcement by Arafat's Aksa Martyrs Brigades exultantly claiming credit for "the courageous qualitative operation" of murdering a mother and her four- and five-year-old sons in their beds in Kibbutz Metzer.
		He makes a compelling case for overturning the long-standing Jewish avoidance of proselytizing.) It is refreshing to read the obvious but rarely stated truth that the intifada is a war of aggression, or, as Singer baldly but correctly puts it, "unprovoked, illegal, and barbaric.
	www.aei.org /publications/pubID.20151,filter.foreign/pub_detail.asp (949 words)

	Anatomy of an Illusion: The Israeli-Palestinian Two-State Solution
		But Oslo, a response to the 1987 - 1992 intifada, ended by encouraging the much greater violence of the al-Aksa intifada that began in September, 2000 and in its first 27 months resulted in 680 Israeli dead, mostly civilian, and 1,700 Palestinian dead, mostly combatants or violent demonstrators.
		The al-Aksa intifada reaffirmed that although Arafat and the Palestinian Authority grudgingly acknowledged Israel's existence, neither Palestinian nationalists nor Islamic fundamentalists accepted its legitimacy.
		Before launching intifada II the Palestinian Authority already controlled or shared control with Israel of 54 percent of the territory (which includes the vast majority of the Palestinian population).
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/854778/posts (4191 words)

	For an Israeli, Flights of Fancy Are Grounded by Samuel G. Freedman
		Then she explained that if he noticed a suicide bomber nearby, he should recite the Shema, the prayer that Jews uttered as they went to their deaths in the Holocaust, the Spanish Inquisition and other tragedies.
		Castel-Bloom's tutorial offered a case of life imitating art imitating life, for she is not only a mother made fearful by the ceaseless Palestinian terrorism but also an author who has just produced the first Israeli novel to chronicle life amid the 20-month-old Palestinian uprising, the Al Aksa intifada.
		Raised in Tel Aviv by Egyptian-born parents who spoke French—her father was an accountant for the airline El Al, her mother worked in a bank—Ms.
	www.samuelfreedman.com /articles/jinterest/nyt06172002.html (1238 words)

	Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
		To understand the Israeli reaction to the Palestinian uprising (call it Intifada II, Intifada 2000, the Palestinian War of Independence, anything except "The Al-Aksa Intifada," which carries the seeds of an irresolvable religious conflict), one has to understand the ideological and everyday geography of the country.
		Barak has repeated many times that he intends to achieve a peace that "the settlers will be happy with," one that leaves 80% of them (320,000 of 400,000 in the West Bank and East Jerusalem) in their settlement homes.
		That is why they were taken so much by "surprise" by the Intifada, why the mainstream "peace camp" is so "confused." No matter what the Palestinians do, it is by no means certain that Israel is capable of making a genuine peace.
	www.icahd.org /eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=2&article=35 (2559 words)

	Salon.com News \| No end in sight
		On the anniversary of the new Palestinian intifada, a resolution between Palestinians and Israelis seems as far away as ever.
		Sheikh Ikrema Sabri, the mufti of Jerusalem, who routinely encourages the faithful to fight, was questioned two weeks ago by Israeli police for calling for the destruction of Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom.
		"Al-Aksa is in danger," one of the intifada's favorite slogans, refers to the belief that Jews are trying to undermine the mosque by digging tunnels that weaken its foundations so that it will eventually topple.
	archive.salon.com /news/feature/2001/09/29/intifada/print.html (2240 words)

	\| National Jewish Outreach Program \|
		A non-conventional war, the Intifada continued until the mid-1990s.
		Just before Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, in September 2000, violence again erupted in the area in what is now being called Intifada II or the Al Aksa Intifada.
		Since the outbreak of the Al Aksa Intifada, hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians have died.
	www.njop.org /html/IsraelhelpHistory.html (2142 words)

	Start of the al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000
		Whoever thinks that this [war] started as a result of Sharon's despicable visit to Al Aksa is in error.
		From the beginning, in September 2000, the al-Aqsa intifada developed into the worst period of violence in Israel's history, excepting only the periods of all-out war with neighboring Arab countries.
		Marwan Barghouti, Fatah-Tanzim, and the Escalation of the Intifada
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1991to_now_alaqsa_start.php (733 words)

	The “al-Aksa Intifada”
		Palestinian spokesmen maintained the violence was caused by the desecration of a Muslim holy place — Haram al-Sharif — by Sharon and the “thousands of Israeli soldiers” who accompanied him.
		On November 7, 2000, an investigatory committee led by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell was established to determine the causes of the violence and to make recommendations for calming the situation.
		Though his actions were largely seen as an attempt to curry favor with the Bush Administration in its war against terror, and not repeat the mistake he made of supporting Iraq in the Gulf War, the effect in the short-run at least has been to reduce the level of violence against Israelis.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Peace/intifada2.html (1815 words)

	Zionism more relevant today than ever, says visiting journalist (November 16, 2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There was the time that Prime Minister Ehud Barak woke up Golan at 3 a.m., calling from abroad because he didn't like something she wrote.
		And then there was the Or Committee, founded by the Barak government to investigate the deaths of 13 Israeli Arabs killed by Israeli police in October 2000, when the al-Aksa intifada first erupted.
		While the al-Aksa intifada tends to dominate the articles datelined Jerusalem these days, so many other problems have erupted as a result, she said.
	www.jewishsf.com /bk011116/sf7.shtml (815 words)

	Arab Electoral Clout in Israel
		Their protest came as an extension of their spontaneous outburst in early October, when they joined the al-Aksa Intifada.
		On February 2, Kul al- Arab devoted three full pages to Laborite Yossi Beilin, who warned the Arab masses and their leaders that the day of Sharon's election will be a "fl" one.
		Then came the al-Aksa Intifada, putting the PA to a test.
	www.odaction.org /samya-on-elections.html (1754 words)

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