Volume 35, Number 6 · April 14, 1988

From the Uprising

By Amos Elon

Thirteen weeks after the start of the popular uprising in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip—which right-wing Israeli politicians and a part of the local press still insist on calling the 'unrest,' the 'events,' the 'discrepancies,' the 'disorders' in the territories—it is safe to make at least one sweeping generalization. The status quo, which Likud politicians have long regarded as the best of all possible worlds, is shattered forever.



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