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How to pronounce intifadah in English?

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Synonyms intifada
Type of insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rising, uprising

Examples of intifadah

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He added that Hamas was bracing for another intifadah or uprising.
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Although Israelis viewed the visit in an internal political context, Palestinians saw it as a provocation to start a fair intifadah.
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Hamas's popularity in Gaza has grown steadily at the expense of the Palestinian Auhority in the course of the current intifadah.
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Another option Sharon is weighing is whether to allow Jews back onto the Temple Mount for the first time since the intifadah.
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They see this as the wrong time to force the Palestinian electorate to make a fundamental strategic choice between the intifadah and Abbas's diplomacy.
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The Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip was viewed by most as a victory for their armed struggle and an acknowledgement by Sharon of his inability to defeat the intifadah.
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Arafat retreated from the negotiating table, and restored his popularity by aligning himself with the intifadah, ending his days under siege at his bombed-out Ramallah headquarters.
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They know it may take Arafat a while to reassert the kind of control he had before the intifadah, but right now his security people are not working on Hamas at all.
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  • Intifada: an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000; "the first intifada ended when Israel granted limited autonomy to the Palestine National Authority in 1993"
  • An uprising among Palestinian Arabs of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, beginning in late 1987 and continuing sporadically into the early 1990s, in protest against continued Israeli occupation of these territories.