Share A- Israelis like to numb the pain of the ongoing struggle for Jewish sovereignty in the Holy Land by calling it anything but what it really is, namely a war. Instead, they attach all kinds of labels to it, the most familiar being “intifada.” Though in Arabic this word means “uprising” against Israel’s illegitimate rule over “Palestine,” or simply, war against Israel, Israelis were educated to believe that intifada means terror, in the abstract sense. So instead of talking about military campaigns against Israel, we say The First Intifada, The Second Intifada, the Knives Intifada, the Lone Wolf Intifada and so on, until the word has been eroded to mean just “violence,” against Jews that is, detached from any real context.