History of Intifada

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There have been two Palestinian Arab uprisings against the Israelis; these are known as the intifadas. (The term literally means "shaking off".)

There have been two Palestinian uprisings against the Israelis; these are known as the intifadas. (The term literally means "shaking off".)

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The intifada was a partially spontaneous phenomenon; after it bgean, the PLO attempted to claim that it had organized it, but historians views this as an after-the-fact attempt to assert more control than it really had. Unfortunately, the proximal causes of the first intifada were rampant false rumors of Jewish attempts to exterminate Palestinians. In the Gaza strip, stories were told that said Israeli hospitals were murdering Palestinians; other stories stated that "the Jews" had poisoned the water so as to kill all the Palestinians in the Gaza strip. A UN investigation found that none of these charges had any basis in fact, but the mere presence of these stories caused wild panic and street fights against Israeli policemen and soldiers.

The intifada was a partially spontaneous phenomenon; after it began, the PLO attempted to claim that it had organized it, but historians views this as an after-the-fact attempt to assert more control than it really had. Unfortunately, the proximal causes of the first intifada were rampant false rumors of Jewish attempts to exterminate Palestinians. In the Gaza strip, stories were told that said Israeli hospitals were murdering Palestinians; other stories stated that "the Jews" had poisoned the water so as to kill all the Palestinians in the Gaza strip. A UN investigation found that none of these charges had any basis in fact, but the mere presence of these stories caused wild panic and street fights against Israeli policemen and soldiers.

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http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mf19a.html Information about the first intifada can be found here: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mf19.html

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A pro-Israeli perspective on the first intifada can be found here: [1]