Intifada: an Arabic word meaning "shaking off."
Here is Abraham Lincoln, then a congressman, speaking in the House in January 1848 against the imperialist goals of the Mexican War. The war's pretext was to safeguard the right of the people of Texas to secede from Mexico, but Lincoln was concerned by the imperialist goals of the war.
The extent of our territory in that region [between the U.S. and Mexico] depended, not on any treaty-fixed boundary (for not treaty attempted it) but on revolution. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable,–a most sacred right–a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government, may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much of the territory as they inhabit. More than this, a majority of any portion of such people may revolutionize, putting down a minority, intermingled with, or near about them, who may oppose their movement…. It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines, or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones. [italic emphases Lincoln's; bold emphasis mine]
