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intifadah

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in·ti·fa·da also in·ti·fa·dah  (nt-fäd)
n.
An uprising among Palestinian Arabs of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, beginning in late 1987 and continuing sporadically into the early 1990s, in protest against continued Israeli occupation of these territories.
[Arabic intifa, shudder, awakening, uprising, from intifaa, to be shaken, wake up, derived stem of nafaa, to shake; see np in Semitic roots.]
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Noun1.intifadah - an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000; "the first intifada ended when Israel granted limited autonomy to the Palestine National Authority in 1993"
intifada
insurrection, revolt, uprising, rising, rebellion - organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another


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The outbreak of the al-Aqsa Intifadah and the need to suppress demonstrations of Jordanian support for it, followed by "Washington-friendly justifications for increased political repression after 11 September 2001" (72) provided further impetus for the reversal.
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Surely, Yasser Arafat's sudden departure from Camp David then followed by the Intifadah underscores that point.
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But with 20,000 terrorist attacks since the second Intifadah began, the only effective way to date that Israel has been able to reduce the number of suicide bombers is to eliminate their sanctuary by control of the main cities of the West Bank through reinstituting occupation and sealing off Gaza.
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