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    The document discusses questions about the Palestinian intifada uprising against Israel. It provides context about the motivations and actions of Palestinian youth who confronted Israeli soldiers. One account describes how a former Palestinian sought to provoke riots and viewed confronting Jews as a religious duty. Another section questions whether Israeli soldiers overreacted or showed too much restraint in response. The document also questions whether the intifada was truly a response to occupation, citing testimony that religious motives drove the uprising more than nationalism.

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    The document discusses questions about the Palestinian intifada uprising against Israel. It provides context about the motivations and actions of Palestinian youth who confronted Israeli soldiers. One account describes how a former Palestinian sought to provoke riots and viewed confronting Jews as a religious duty. Another section questions whether Israeli soldiers overreacted or showed too much restraint in response. The document also questions whether the intifada was truly a response to occupation, citing testimony that religious motives drove the uprising more than nationalism.

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    The document discusses questions about the Palestinian intifada uprising against Israel. It provides context about the motivations and actions of Palestinian youth who confronted Israeli soldiers. One account describes how a former Palestinian sought to provoke riots and viewed confronting Jews as a religious duty. Another section questions whether Israeli soldiers overreacted or showed too much restraint in response. The document also questions whether the intifada was truly a response to occupation, citing testimony that religious motives drove the uprising more than nationalism.

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    Intifada - The Peace FAQ

    Intifada

    Frequently Asked Questions:

    ● Why did the Palestinian Arab kids seek out Israeli soldiers and bases
    and then start throwing rocks and petrol bombs at them? Weren't
    they afraid of getting shot?
    ● Didn't the Israeli soldiers over-react to this confrontation?
    ● Wasn't the intifada a justified response to Israel's occupation of their
    land?

    Why did the Palestinian Arab kids seek out Israeli soldiers and
    bases and then start throwing rocks and petrol bombs at them?
    Weren't they afraid of getting shot?

    ● During school riots against what we called the Israeli occupation I


    would prepare speeches, slogans, and write anti-Israel graffiti in an
    effort to provoke students to throw rocks at the armed Israeli
    soldiers. We shouted "No peace or negotiations with the enemy",
    "Our blood and our souls we sacrifice to Arafat", "Our blood and our
    souls we sacrifice to Palestine", "Death to the Zionists" etc....

    I vowed to fight my Jewish enemy believing that I was doing God's


    will on earth, and was true to my word as I participated in many riots
    against the Israeli army, always trying to inflict harm to them and by
    all means and methods I could come up with. I would start and
    participate in any riot I can make, in schools, streets, and even on
    the holiest place (the Temple mount site) in Jerusalem called by
    Arabs (Al-Masjid Al-Aqsa), and all through high school I would always
    be one of the first to provoke a riot.

    Many others got involved in terror tactics against the Jews using
    bombs and armed assaults on Jews as to force them to leave Israel,
    but they never could pluck them out.

    Nothing could change my heart, I could only die or a miracle needed

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    Intifada - The Peace FAQ

    to happen. The simplest way to describe myself is that I was one of


    those whom one would view on CNN throwing rocks and molotov
    cocktails in the days of the Intifada or 'The Uprising', I was one of
    these who Jews would call a terrorist, the interesting thing is that I
    was not only terrorizing but I was terrorized by my beliefs, since I
    had to gain enough merit and good deeds to go to heaven but never
    was sure if my good deeds would outweigh my bad deeds in the
    scale when I get judged by God, of course to die fighting the Jews
    will ease Allah's anger towards my sin and I will be secured in a good
    spot in heaven with beautiful wide eyed women to fulfill my most
    intimate desires, either way I will win, and terror was the only way.

    - Walid, a Palestinian Arab defector, quoted from "Answering Islam"

    ● "The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative


    to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian
    people are prepared to sacrifice the last boy and the last girl so that
    the Palestinian flag will be flown over the walls, the churches and the
    mosques of Jerusalem."

    - Arafat (Ha'aretz, September 6, 1995)

    Didn't the Israeli soldiers over-react to this confrontation?

    ● Many say the Israeli restraint itself was excessive. In fact, many
    Israeli soldiers died in those confrontations because of this policy of
    restraint. The restraint prevented them from taking the kind of action
    which most, if not all, countries in the world would take under similar
    conditions. Perhaps it is this apparent weakness on the part of the
    Israelis which fueled the continuation of the intifada, and prolonged
    world sympathy with the 'weaker' side in the conflict. Perhaps the
    world would have respected Israel more if they saw the soldiers
    standing up for themselves and their nation's right to exist, instead
    of acting on orders to show restraint to the mobs. But then, who
    really cares what the UN thinks anyway?

    - The Society for Rational Peace

    Wasn't the intifada a justified response to Israel's occupation of


    their land?

    ● Read Walid's testimony above to see that the motivation for the

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    intifada was edenistic and religious in nature, and not primarily a


    rebellion against 'oppression'.
    ● Whose land? Read the sections on The Occupied Territories, The
    West Bank, The Six-Day War, Jordan, East Jerusalem, etc...

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