On This Deity: 9th December 1987
I’ve got another piece up on Dorian’s excellent On This Deity…
9th December 1987: The First Intifada.
Today we mark the beginning of the first Palestinian Intifada in 1987. Various end dates are cited, usually falling between the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991 and the Mehola Junction bombing of 1993, but arguably the conditions and enmities created during those first years have characterised Israeli-Palestinian relationships ever since, however one chooses to draw the timeline.
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