Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: The Global March to Jerusalem, a brave and admirable attempt to awaken the world’s conscience [View all]pelsar
(12,283 posts)"We are the generation that was most connected with the base of the Palestinian people. We were active in the first and second intifadas;
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why don't you look up these names...
However, the uprising was predominantly led by community councils led by Hanan Ashrawi, Faisal Husseini and Haidar Abdel-Shafi, that promoted independent networks for education (underground schools as the regular schools were closed by the military in reprisal for the uprising), medical care, and food aid The Unified National Leadership of the Uprising (UNLU) gained credibility where the Palestinian society complied with the issued communiques.
want more?
Yasser Arafat was denounced yesterday by a senior figure in his own Fatah movement who accused the Palestinian leader of sheltering corrupt officials and setting his people on a path to 'hell'.
thats enough....now its your turn to start doing the research...and keep in mind the "test"...the difference between the two intifadas....
its not about replacing the PLO, its about Arafats corrupt ruling style, his sidling the local leadership, replacing them with his own cronies and the disaster he brought upon the Palestinians, i.e. they failure was in a large part their own doing (i know, you can't accept that, because you have an open mind).