Armed struggle and the search for state : the Palestinian national movement, 1949-1993 / Yezid Sayigh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ṣāyigh, Yazīd.

Contributor:

Institute for Palestine Studies (Washington, D.C.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah.

Palestinian Arabs--Politics and government.

Palestinian Arabs.

Nationalism--Palestine.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 953 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Summary:

Based on unprecedented access to PLO archives and personnel, this groundbreaking new study represents the definitive history of the Palestinian national movement. Spanning the 45 years from the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993, it sheds radical new light on the history of the Middle East in the last half of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Abbreviations

Glossary of Arabic Terms

Maps

Genealogical Diagram

Introduction: A Historical Framework

I. Searching for Palestine, 1949-1966

1. Why Palestinian Nationalism? The Social, Economic, and Political Context after 1948

2. Palestinians in Arab Uniform

3. Rebirth of the Palestinian National Movement

4. The Watershed

5. Challenges of the Armed Struggle

II. Years of Revolution, 1967-1972

6. Transforming Defeat into Opportunity

7. Carving out the Guerrilla Sanctuary

8. Guerrilla War in Theory and Practice

9. The Making of the Palestinian Political System

10. Dual Power

11. End of a Myth

12. Interregnum

III. The State-in-Exile, 1973-1982

13. At the Crossroads

14. The Lebanese Crisis

15. The Struggle for Lebanon

16. Ambition Frustrated, Sanctuary Preserved

17. A Ceasefire, Not a Truce

18. Rearguard Action

19. The 'Fakhani Republic'

20. Extending the State-in-Exile or Capturing It?

21. No Lull before the Storm

22. The Lebanon War

IV. Squaring the Circle: Statehood into Autonomy, 1983-1993

23. Assaulting the State-in-Exile from Within

24. Struggle Within, Struggle Without

25. Intifada to the Rescue

26. The Road to Oslo

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

"Institute for Palestine Studies, Washington, D.C."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [843]-912) and index.

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ISBN:

9780191513541

0191513547

OCLC:

252675752