Intifada . Any of the popular Palestinian uprisings in the West Bank and Gaza Strip aimed at ending the Israeli occupation of those territories and creating an independent Palestinian state.
Summary
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- 1 Shaking or lifting
- 2 History
- 3 Objectives subject to debate
- 4 Development of the Arab-Israeli conflict
- 1 First intifada
- 2 Second intifada
- 5 See also
- 6 Sources
Shaking or rising
The term Intifada comes from the Arabic root nafaḍa which means, among other things, to shake, dust, remove, shake. Intifāḍa – shaken, shaken, agitated – is the noun (maṣdar) of the derived form of the verb whose hue is reflective – to be shaken. Thus, the term Intifada took on a political charge to refer to some type of subversion or resistance against some oppressive power, as in the case of the Palestinian popular revolts.
History
It started in late 1987 and lasted until 1993. The Israeli conservative government in 1987 did not even recognize the PLO as representative of the Palestinian cause for its involvement in terrorist acts against the Jewish State. On December 8, 1987, a truck of Israeli settlers rammed a car loaded with Palestinian workers in Gaza; four Palestinians died.
The intifada was a direct consequence of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 67, of the repressive policy towards Palestinians to achieve the integration of the occupied territories in Israel, and of the constant establishment of the Jewish colonies. Thus the only means the Palestinians had to make themselves heard were riots. This resulted in a historic break between Palestinian-Israeli relations that led to the constitution of the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
Objectives subject to debate
Some sectors point out that their objective is to combat the occupation of the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, other sectors believe that the underlying objective continues to be the destruction of Israel and with it their faith given the Jewish-Islamic struggle, although the latter is in full discussion since the counterpart argues that Israel was not a state until 1948, and is the one who invaded and violently expelled the Palestinians who lived in the territories that the Jews claim to be part of the state of Israel.
Development of the Arab-Israeli conflict
These uprisings are among the aspects that have most influenced the development of the Arab-Israeli conflict in recent decades. Several intifadas have occurred and all agree that these began as Palestinian agitation campaigns, in response to constant Israeli harassment, thus generating a cycle of inertial violence that is difficult to solve.
First intifada
Main article: First Intifada .
It started at the end of 1987 and lasted until 1993. The Israeli conservative government in 1987 did not even recognize the PLO as a representative of the Palestinian cause due to its involvement in terrorist acts against the Jewish State.
Second intifada
Main article: Second Intifada .
The Second Intifada or Al-Aqsa Intifada was the wave of violence that began on September 29, 2000 in Palestine and Israel.
