He played all the roles.вЂќДЄmong Palestinians, Zubeidi was just one of several prominent militants of that era, his name having long ago faded from the headlines. вЂњIn many ways, heвЂ™s the poster kid for Israelis of the Palestinian terror campaign of the second intifada,вЂќ said Yossi Kuperwasser, a retired general who served in Israeli military intelligence during the uprising. He also is one of the few who regularly gave media interviews. To Israelis, he is a notorious terrorist responsible for suicide bombings and shooting attacks that killed civilians. They lived through a brief period of hope at the height of the peace process, only to take up arms in the far more violent intifada that erupted in 2000, and which claimed the lives of ZubeidiвЂ™s mother, brother and several comrades.Д«ut even among that cohort, few Palestinian militants had closer ties to Israelis than Zubeidi, who for many years was an even bigger celebrity in Israel than in the Palestinian territories. Zubeidi, now in his mid-40s, comes from a generation of Palestinians who were children during the first intifada, or uprising against Israel, which erupted in 1987. Now he has emerged as one of IsraelвЂ™s most wanted fugitives after tunneling out of a high-security prison on Monday with five other Palestinian militants. JERUSALEM - For nearly two decades, Zakaria Zubeidi has been an object of fascination for Israelis and Palestinians alike, who have seen his progression from a child actor to a swaggering militant, to the scarred face of a West Bank theater promoting вЂњcultural resistanceвЂќ to Israeli occupation. Student вЂdiversityвЂ™ rep under fire for anti-Semitic tweetД¬UNY law students warring with faculty members over anti-Israel resolution Hamas accuses Israel of deploying armed вЂkiller Zionist dolphinsвЂ™ CUNY professors sue вЂanti-Semitic and anti-IsraelвЂ™ union

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