Dispatches from Palestine : the rise and fall of the Oslo peace process / Graham Usher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Usher, Graham, 1958-

Series:

Middle East issues.

Middle East issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Peace.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government.

Palestinian Arabs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Usher ... does the best foreign on-the-spot reporting from Palestine.' Edward Said, London Review of Books 'The reader vicariously experiences what will become great moments of popular oral history that official historians will forget in the great scheme of things.' Middle East International

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Interviewees

Introduction

Part 1. Oslo One - Gaza/Jericho First September 1993 to September 1995

Preface

1 Why Gaza Says Yes, Mostly

2 What Kind of Nation? The Rise of Hamas in the Occupied Territories

3 An Israeli Peace: an Interview with Ilan Pappe

4 Palestine: the Economic Fist in the Political Glove

5 Jabalyia and the Meaning of Return

Part 2.Oslo Two - Oslo's High Tide September 1995 to May 1996

6 Bantustanisation or Binationalism? An Interview with Azmi Bishara

7 The Politics of Internal Security: the PA™s New Intelligence Services

8 Outsider In: a Profile of Palestinian Council Candidate Salah Tamari

9 The Politics of Atrocity

10 The Charter and the Future of Palestinian Politics

11 Closures, Cantons and the Palestinian Covenant

12 The Palestinians in Israel

13 Shimon Peres - a Fourth-Time Loser?

Part 3. Post-Oslo - Decline and Fall May 1996 to December 1998

14 Pictures of War

15 Madness in Ramallah

16 Hizbollah, Syria and the Lebanese Elections

17 'All Killers': Luxor, the Gama'a and Egypt's Prisons

18 Fatah, Hamas and the Crisis of Oslo: Interviews with Marwan Barghouti and Ibrahim Ghoshah

19 Making Peace: an Interview with Yossi Beilin

20 Believers in Blue Jeans: an Interview with Rabbi Aryeh Deri

21 The Fire the Next Time? Palestinians in Lebanon

22 The Meaning of Sheikh Yassin

23 Impossible Contradictions - Israel at 50

24 A Palestinian Refugee at 51

References

Maps

1 Palestinian Autonomous Area - Gaza strip 1994

2 Areas of National Priority - 1997

3 West Bank - 1998.

Index

INFOLINKER.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849640213

1849640211

9780585425917

0585425914

OCLC:

923330503