by Douglas DeBono, 2006

ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED AT StandingOrders.BlogSpot.Com, November 07, 2005

According to dictinary.com, intifada is defined as "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 Israeli Intifada was orchestrated out of Yassir Arafat's bunker and it had the goal of weakening Israel's control over territory by maintaining a constant level of violence.

The disturbance in France spread across the country. It would be a mistake to believe that this an urban riot that can be controlled by tear gas and non-lethal means. After twelve nights of violence, it is clear the riots are not spontaneous but organized.

The French government still fails to understand that they are in the fight for their country. They face an organized, guerilla force that has access to grenades, gasoline bombs and small arms.

There is a larger European problem that impacts the west. What do we do about mosques that are used to organize violence, and the madrassas that preach hate? It may be too soon to label this as war, but it certainly time to called an armed revolution inside a major European country.