The Intifada: The Palestinian Mass Uprising ----The rise of the PLO to the world stage really began with the well-known intifada, or mass uprising, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It was at the end of 1987 where resistance to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip began to sharply escalate in the form of demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, and violence. It came to involve virtually the whole Palestinian population in those areas, and …showed first 75 words of 1379 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1379 total…once again, Arafat is trying to rally the world to the side of the PLO in its ongoing struggle. Bibliography Gerner, Deborah. "The Arab-Israeli Conflict." Intervention into the 1990's. ed. Peter J. Shraeder. Boulder: Rienner Publishers, 1992. pp. 361 - 382. Nassar, Jamal and Heacock, Roger, eds. Intifada: Palestine at the Crossroads. New York: Praeger, 1990. Peretz, Don. Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990. Biographical information taken from: Koury, Philip S. "Arafat, Yasir." Colliers Encyclopedia CD_ROM. Vol.2 1996.