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'''Intifada''' (انتفاضة ''intifāḍat'') is an [[Arabic Language|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 first Palestinian uprising in the late 1980s and early '90s. It is seen by many Arabs as a valid term for popular resistance to oppression, while for many English speakers it has come to conjure images of violent attacks on civilians."<ref name=wapo>{{cite web
|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082301933.html
|title=In New York, a Word Starts a Fire
|author=Robin Shulman
|publisher=Washington Post
|date=August 24, 2007
|accessdate=2007-11-25}}</ref>
"The Palestinians were largely unarmed, so the enduring picture of the intifada is one of young men and boys throwing stones and rocks at Israeli troops."
<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7381369.stm
|title= 1987: First Intifada
|publisher=[[BBC]]
|date=May 6, 2008
|accessdate=2008-5-16}}</ref>
It may refer to:
*[[First Intifada]], a Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule in 1987 to 1993.
*[[1990s Intifada]], an uprising in [[Bahrain]] demanding a return to democratic rule.
*[[1991 uprisings in Iraq]] against [[Saddam Hussein]].
*[[Cedar Revolution]] or Intifada of Independence, the events in Lebanon after [[Rafiq Hariri]]'s 2005 assassination.
*[[French Intifada]], an occasional American term for riots in France in the fall of 2005.
*[[Independence Intifada]], demonstrations and riots in Morocco and Western Sahara beginning in May 2005.
*[[March Intifada]], a [[Leftist]] uprising against the [[United Kingdom|British]] colonial presence in [[Bahrain]] in March 1965.
*[[Second Intifada|Second, or al-Aqsa Intifada]], the violent Palestinian-Israeli conflict that began in September of 2000.
*[[Zemla Intifada]] against Spanish rule in Spanish Sahara, beginning in 1970.
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