The expression Intifada of Independence (Arabic, "intifāDatu-l-istiqlāl") can refer to a number of uprisings in the
*The Lebanese protests against the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, also known as the
*The Sahrawi uprising in Western Sahara, also known as the Independence Intifada.
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Intifada — (انتفاضة intifāḍat ) is an Arabic word for shaking off , though it is generally translated into English as rebellion. According to a 2007 article in the Washington Post , the word intifada crystallized in its current Arabic meaning during the… … Wikipedia
INTIFADA — This entry deals with the origins and ramifications of the first Intifada, which commenced in late 1987. For its subsequent course and for the second, so called al Aqsa Intifada, see israel , State of: Historical Survey; israel , State of: Israel … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Independence Intifada (Western Sahara) — The Independence Intifadaref|arso2005c ( intifada is Arabic for uprising ) is a Saharawi Polisario activist coinage for a series of disturbances, demonstrations and riots that broke out in May 2005 Fact|date=February 2007 in the Moroccan held… … Wikipedia
Second Intifada — Part of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and Arab–Israeli conflict Clockwise from above: A masked P … Wikipedia
Civilian casualties in the Second Intifada — Contents 1 Israeli non combatant casualties 2 Palestinian non combatant casualties 3 Western casualties in the Second Intifada 3.1 Casualties by Israel … Wikipedia
Israeli Declaration of Independence — Declaration of Independence Location Tel Aviv Authors … Wikipedia
Zemla Intifada — The Zemla Intifada (or The Zemla Uprising) is the name used by the Algeria backed Polisario movement to refer to disturbances of June 17, 1970, which culminated in a massacre by Spanish forces in the Zemla district of El Aaiun, Western Sahara… … Wikipedia
HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ARAB POPULATION — GENERAL SURVEY Under the British Mandate, 1917–48 In 1917, at the time of the British conquest of Palestine during World War I, the country s Arabic speaking population numbered less than 600,000 persons; in 1947 it was estimated at 1,200,000.… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ARAB WORLD, 1945–2006 — The Arab world is divided into four subregions: the Maghreb (morocco , tunisia , algeria , libya , Mauritania), the Nile Valley (egypt and Sudan), the Fertile Crescent (syria , lebanon , iraq , jordan , and the palestinian authority ), and the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
