The Palestinian political scene has yet to agree on the nature of the confrontations taking place with the Israelis since early October. Some observers define them as an intifada, while others call them ‘peaceful’ popular uprisings, and a third group believes they are protests against Israel’s police raid on the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Palestinian forces and organisations include Hamas (a Hebrew word which means violence), Fatah (which means conquering), Islamic Jihad (jihad means struggle), the PFLP (a secular Marxist-Leninist revolutionary socialist group favouring a one-state solution), and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (which maintains a paramilitary wing called the National Resistance Brigades). They all appear to want to continue this ‘intifada’ until it achieves its objectives - which the various groups can’t agree on. The choices include ending Israel's Al-Aqsa Mosque policies, Israel returning to negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, and Israel stopping West Bank settlement activities.