intifada

Noun

Meaning

an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000

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If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka. Christopher Hitchens

I support the Intifada of the Palestinian people...And I welcome the national and Islamic resistance efforts in Lebanon. Taj El-Din Hilaly

In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law. Jean-Marie Le Pen

the first intifada ended when Israel granted limited autonomy to the Palestine National Authority in 1993 Source: Internet

As Matti Friedman wrote in the on the eve of Israel’s most recent election, the Second Intifada irrevocably changed the trajectory of Israeli politics. Source: Internet

Clinton's presentation of the US proposals was delayed by the advent of the Second Intifada at the end of September. Source: Internet

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