First Intifada
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The First Intifada, also known as the First Palestinian Intifada, was a sustained uprising involving violent and non-violent protests, acts of civil disobedience, riots, and terrorist attacks carried
Top, bottom: Palestinian protestors confront Israeli troops in Gaza City, 1987 Israeli military checkpoint near Jabalia in the Gaza Strip, 1988
Intifada in Gaza Strip, 1987 V Dan Hadani Archive
Protests in the Gaza Strip at the onset of the First Intifada in 1987
An IDF soldier requesting a resident of Jabalia to erase a slogan on a wall during the First Intifada.
Yitzhak Rabin
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Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli statesman and general who was the prime minister of Israel, having served from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. He was the first prime min
First Intifada
…describes the PLO as uncompromising and reliant on international terrorism, which he says exacerbated Palestinian grievances. The Israeli Labor Party's Yitzhak Rabin, then Defense Minister, added deportations in August 1985 to Israel's "Iron Fist" policy of cracking down on Palestinian nationalism. This, which led…
Rabin in 1994
Rabin with his parents and sister, 1927
Rabin shortly before joining the Palmach
Altalena on fire after being shelled near Tel Aviv