Intifada

Intifada (also Intefadah or Intifadah; from Arabic: ??????? "shaking off") is an Arabic language term for "uprising".

Related Topics:
Arabic - Uprising

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• It came into common usage in English as the popularised name for two recent Palestinian campaigns directed at ending the Israeli military occupation. It is one of the most significant aspects in recent years of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
• The First Intifada began in 1987. Violence declined in 1991 and came to an end with the signing of the Oslo accords (August 1993) and the creation of the Palestinian National Authority.
• The Al-Aqsa Intifada (also known as the second Palestinian intifada or the Second Intifada) was the violent Palestinian-Israeli conflict that began in September of 2000.
• In 1952, citizens of Baghdad engaged in a series of large-scale protests against the Iraqi government, widely referred to as "the Intifada".
• Following the United States?led invasion of Iraq in 2003 Muqtada al-Sadr, a militant Shia cleric, launched an uprising which he referred to as the "Iraqi Intifada" http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=585 aimed at ending the United States military occupation of Iraq.
• An Intifada occurred in May 2005 in the Moroccan-occupied territory of Western Sahara. The use of the term Intifada in Western Sahara goes back to earlier uprisings in 1999 (the Smara Intifada), and in 1970 (the Zemla Intifada, against Spanish occupation).
• "Intifada of Independence" is the term mostly used by the Lebanese media to refer to the events that occurred after Rafiq Hariri's assasination. It is also known as the "Cedar Revolution"