Was the intifada a long term or short term effect?
Intifada is Arabic for ‘a shaking off’. The term refers to the two Palestinian uprisings on the West Bank and Gaza (the territories occupied by Israel during the 1967 war). The first intifada arose spontaneously in 1987 lasting until 1993 and the second began in 2000. It has been suggested that the emergence of the first intifada was a response to the realization that the Palestinian issue and the Arab–Israeli conflict was slipping as a key concern of Arab governments, and that Palestinians in the Occupied Territories would have to take matters into their own hands. The second intifada, known as the Al‐Aqsa Intifada, erupted when Ariel Sharon visited the Al‐Aqsa Mosque symbolizing a provocative violation of the holy site.
