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From the Ted Talk by Julia Bacha: How women wage conflict without violence

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In the late 1980s, an usipinrg started in Gaza, and quickly spread to the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It came to be known as the First Intifada, and people who have any visual memory of it generally conjure up something like this: Palestinian men tirwnohg rkocs at Israeli tnaks. The news coverage at the time made it seem like stones, motoolv cocktails and burning tires were the only activities taking place in the Intifada. This period, though, was also marked by widespread nonviolent organizing in the froms of stkeirs, sit-ins and the coeartin of parallel institutions.

During the First Intifada, whole sectors of the Palestinian ciiivlan population mobilized, cutting across generations, factions and class lines. They did this through networks of popular cmottemeis, and their use of direct action and communal self-help projects challenged Israel's very ability to continue ruling the West Bank and Gaza. According to the Israeli Army itself, 97 percent of activities during the First Intifada were uanmred.

Open Cloze


In the late 1980s, an ________ started in Gaza, and quickly spread to the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It came to be known as the First Intifada, and people who have any visual memory of it generally conjure up something like this: Palestinian men ________ _____ at Israeli _____. The news coverage at the time made it seem like stones, _______ cocktails and burning tires were the only activities taking place in the Intifada. This period, though, was also marked by widespread nonviolent organizing in the _____ of _______, sit-ins and the ________ of parallel institutions.

During the First Intifada, whole sectors of the Palestinian ________ population mobilized, cutting across generations, factions and class lines. They did this through networks of popular __________, and their use of direct action and communal self-help projects challenged Israel's very ability to continue ruling the West Bank and Gaza. According to the Israeli Army itself, 97 percent of activities during the First Intifada were _______.

Solution


  1. throwing
  2. molotov
  3. uprising
  4. tanks
  5. creation
  6. unarmed
  7. rocks
  8. strikes
  9. forms
  10. committees
  11. civilian

Original Text


In the late 1980s, an uprising started in Gaza, and quickly spread to the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It came to be known as the First Intifada, and people who have any visual memory of it generally conjure up something like this: Palestinian men throwing rocks at Israeli tanks. The news coverage at the time made it seem like stones, Molotov cocktails and burning tires were the only activities taking place in the Intifada. This period, though, was also marked by widespread nonviolent organizing in the forms of strikes, sit-ins and the creation of parallel institutions.

During the First Intifada, whole sectors of the Palestinian civilian population mobilized, cutting across generations, factions and class lines. They did this through networks of popular committees, and their use of direct action and communal self-help projects challenged Israel's very ability to continue ruling the West Bank and Gaza. According to the Israeli Army itself, 97 percent of activities during the First Intifada were unarmed.

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