Women, and women's organizations, are prominent in…

Women, and women's organizations, are prominent in the intifadah.

Before long, the persistent disturbances, initially spontaneous, come under the leadership of the Unified National Command of the Uprising, which has links to the PLO.

The PLO soon incorporates the Unified Command, but not before the local leaders have pushed PLO head Yasser Arafat to abandon his commitment to armed struggle and to accept Israel and the notion of a two-state solution to the conflict.