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Title: AlAqsa Intifada, 20002004


1
Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2004
  • From a grassroots to
  • guerrilla-oriented movement

2
Underlying Grievances
  • Failure of Oslo Accords (1993-1995) Stalled
    peace process
  • Poor and autocratic PA administration
  • Economic suffering
  • Israeli Settlements
  • Area occupied by settlements doubled between 1992
    and 1999
  • Around 480,000 settlers in the WB and Jerusalem
    (about 9-10 of WB population today)
  • 56 new settlements established in 2002-2003.
  • 140-180 settlements total in the WB and Gaza
  • Bypass roads

3
Oslo Basics
  • creation of Palestinian National Authority to
    govern some parts of the West Bank Gaza
  • Led by PLO
  • Civil but not territorial control only 3-4
    actual W. Bank Gaza land
  • Israel remains in charge of air space, borders
  • Israelis retain right to freely enter the
    territories

4
Oslo Accords more basics
  • PLO recognizes Israels right to exist and
    forswears use of violence
  • Interim settlement NOT a final agreement
  • What went wrong
  • Frontloading of Israeli benefits, backloading
    of Palestinians benefits
  • Lack of intermediaries
  • Political instability and weakness on both sides
  • Society not brought along
  • violence intransigence on both sides

5
The catalyst what started the 2nd intifada?
  • Late 2000 Breakdown of latest round of peace
    negotiations
  • 10/28/2000 Ariel Sharon visits al Aqsa Mosque in
    Jerusalem
  • Widespread protests violence

6
Repertoires
  • Guerrilla warfare
  • Armed attacks on army posts, Israeli settlements
  • Military equipment light arms, hand grenades,
    remote-controlled landmines, Qassam rockets.
  • Suicide bombings
  • About 115 suicide bombings since Dec. 2000
  • Clashes at checkpoints between young Palestinian
    men and soldiers

Above, Rescue workers aid a woman injured in a
2002 Tel Aviv bombing that killed 22 people and
injured more than 100. Both Islamic Jihad and the
Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility.
7
Number of suicide attacks in Israel and across
the Green Line by quarter. Graphic from Haaretz.
8
Sean Yom and Basel Saleh, Palestinian Suicide
Bombers A Statistical Analysisavailable at
http//www.ecaar.org/Newsletter/Nov04/saleh.htm
9
Al-Aqsa Intifada fatalities(9/29/2000-04/20/2005
)
  • 656 Israeli civilians, including 99 minors,
    killed by Palestinians.
  • 302 members of the Israeli security forces killed
    by Palestinians
  • 3,224 Palestinians, including 643 minors, killed
    by Israeli security forces.
  • 35 Palestinians, including 3 minors, killed by
    Israeli civilians.
  • 110 Palestinians killed by other Palestinians for
    suspected collaboration with Israel
  • (Source BTselem)

10
Who
  • Majority young men and boys
  • Hamas
  • Carried out about 50 suicide bombings
  • Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
  • Militant wing of Fatah
  • About 25 suicide bombings
  • Islamic Jihad

11
Why did the popular uprising of the first
intifada turn into an almost purely armed
conflict in the second Intifada, according to
Amira Hass in Reporting from Ramallah?
Israeli workers clear up the remains of a bus
bombed by Palestinian militants.
Palestinian throws Molotov cocktail at Israeli
security forces.
12
Israeli Responses
  • Reoccupation of PA cities
  • Destruction of houses
  • 2001-2005 666 houses destroyed as punitive
    measure (not in course of combat)
  • Cessation announced Feb. 05.
  • Assassinations
  • 288 Palestinians killed by Israelis through
    assassination attempts (181 actually targeted)
  • Hamas leaders Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz
    al-Rantisi assassinated
  • Curfews checkpoints
  • 48 permanently staffed checkpoints in West Bank
  • Separation barrier

Israeli tanks move into Ramallah, 2002. Photos
BBC
13
Results of the al Aqsa Intifada the Israeli
response (through 2004)
  • Kept the conflict in the news (especially by al
    Jazeera TV)
  • Substantial shift to the right in Israeli public
    opinion
  • New narrative of nonpossibility of negotiated
    peace
  • Rhetoric of demonization from both Palestinians
    and Israelis (no partners in peace)
  • 50 Palestinian unemployment (up dramatically
    since 2000)
  • Wide critiques of PA
  • PA inability to provide strategy for resistance
  • 65 of Palestinians now classified as below
    poverty line
  • Hamas and Islamic Jihad More pragmatic?
  • Unilateral Hudna (truce), 2003-2004, and
    temporary ceasefire (Tahdiye) after election of
    Pres. Mahmoud Abbas, March-May 2005

14
Recent polls (March 2005)
  • Palestinian support for bombing (or suicide)
    attacks inside Israel drops from 77 in September
    2004 to 29 in March 2005.
  • But no more than 40 believe perpetrators of
    suicide attacks should be arrested.
  • In a joint survey of Israelis and Palestinians,
    84 of the Palestinians and 85 of the Israelis
    support a return to negotiations on a
    comprehensive settlement.
  • However 59 of Palestinians prefer immediate
    return to final status negotiations on all issues
    in dispute at once, and 31 prefer a gradual
    approach. Among Israelis, 57 prefer a gradual
    approach and 34 prefer a final status solution
    of all issues at once.
  • 79 of Palestinians support the participation of
    Hamas in the negotiations with Israel 79 prefer
    to see more active American involvement in the
    search for a peace agreement.

Source Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey
Research http//www.pcpsr.org/
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