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noun - an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000
noun - an uprising of Palestinians against Israelis
INTIFADA - Intifada ( intifah) is an Arabic word literally meaning, as a noun , "tremor", "shivering", "shuddering". It is derived from an Arabic term nafada mea...
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| Bethlehem tourism was hurt by this Palestinian uprising that began in 1987 |
| A 1987 wave of violent Palestinian unrest Is known as the first this, from Arabicfor "shaking off." |
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| 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. |
| an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000 |
| a violent act of oppostion by the Palestinian people to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: |
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Intifada ( intifah) is an Arabic word literally meaning, as a noun, "tremor", "shivering", "shuddering". It is derived from an Arabic term nafada meaning "to shake", "shake off", "get rid of", as a dog might shrug off water, or as one might shake off sleep, or dirt from one's sandals, and is a key concept in contemporary Arabic usage referring to a legitimate uprising against oppression. It is often rendered into English as "uprising", "resistance", or "rebellion". * The concept intifada was first utilized in modern times in 1952 within the Kingdom of Iraq, when socialist and communist parties took to the streets to protest the Hashemite monarchy, with inspiration of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution. In the Palestinian context, with which it is particularly associated, the word refers to attempts to "shake off" the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the First and Second Intifadas, where it was originally chosen to connote "aggressive nonviolent resistance", a meaning it b |