Talk:Oslo War

I've done a rewrite, taking some not-very-ontopic stuff out and hopefully making the article more NPOV. I removed the 'some Palestinian officials admitted...' bit because the supplied link doesn't back it up as far as I can see. --Joeboy 14:47, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Anonymous user: Al-Aqsa Intifada is the most common English term for this conflict, followed closely by Second Intifada (see the Google results: ~79 000 for "Al-Aqsa Intifada", ~65 000 for "Second Intifada", ~8 000 for "Oslo War"). This is the only reason that our article on it uses the title; see Naming conventions (common names). It's perfectly fine to have an article about the term "Oslo War", but having multiple articles on the same topic, with each taking a different POV, is not acceptable. (Try Wikinfo if you like that arrangement.) For another closely-related example of what I'm talking about, compare Palestinian exodus and Nakba; the first discusses the event itself, while the second is about the term "Nakba" and the ways in which it is used; note that it is not a Palestinian-POV version of the first article. &#8212;Charles P. (Mirv) 19:51, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

This conflict between Israel and the Palestinians began in the fall of 2000 and continues to this day following the collapse of the Oslo Accords. It is known by Arabs as the Al-Aqsa Intifada because it broke out when Sharon entered the Temple Mount which Arabs saw as an assault on the Al-Aqsa Mosque. It broke out with rioting refered to by Zionists as The Rosh Hashana Arab Assault just before Rosh Hashana, 5761, on September 28, 2000, when Ariel Sharon ascended The Temple Mount which Arabs used as an excuse for the violence that some people claim they planned to carry out after the failure of the Camp David summit in July, 2000. Some Palestinian officials admitted this claim (see Al-Aqsa Intifada).

As an Israeli, I've never heard of the term "Oslo War", although many people blame the "oslo criminals" for the Intifada of course. --217.132.239.14 19:30, 17 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh, not another fork on the same topic! We do not start articles under every name by which something is known.  That's what the redirect mechanism is for.  This is going to become a redirect to Al-Aqsa Intifada.  Please identify anything in this article that is not adequately covered at Al-Aqsa Intifada.  --Zero 02:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)