POLI 347 Lecture Notes - First Intifada, Palestinian Flag, Democratic Front For The Liberation Of Palestine
19 Dec 2012
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Tuesday, october 9th, 2012: first intifada & peace process. Jordan just appointed a new ambassador to israel after it was vacant for 2 years. An intifada is a shaking-off or waking-up palestinians were shaking off the occupation and the status quo/normalizing relations with israel. In the 1970s, the focus was on the plo and the military operations. West bank and gaza at this time, organizations, local leaders, local initiatives were started. In the late 1980s, in the post-lebanon context, dynamics were shifting (status-quo was changing). There was a sense that things were not moving towards peace or an independent palestinian state. For the international community, questions were raised about how the conflict was playing out and if the dynamics were what people had previously assumed. It occurred partly as a response to the iron fist policy: started after lebanon when israel was maintaining a presence there to control the population in the south.
