Armed Struggle and the Search for State The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993

by Sayigh, Yezid

• ISBN13: 9780198296430
• ISBN10: 0198296436
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Built upon an unprecedented amount of access to PLO archives, official publications, and the internal documents of various guerrilla groups, as well as over four hundred interviews conducted by the author with the rank-and-file of the PLO, this groundbreaking book affords a definitive account of the Palestinian National Movement. Covering thoroughly the forty-five years between the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 to the PLO-Israel accord of 1993, this study sheds much new light on the history of the Middle East in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Historial Framework

Searching for Palestine, 1949-1966

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

Palestinians in Arab Uniform

Rebirth of the Palestinian National Movement

The Watershed

Challenges of the Armed Struggle

Years of Revolution, 1967-1972

Transforming Defeat into Opportunity

Carving Out the Guerilla Sanctuary

Guerilla War in Theory and Practice

The Making of the Palestinian Political System

Dual Power

End of a Myth

Interregnum

The State-in-Exile, 1973-1982

At the Crossroads

The Lebanese Crisis

The Struggle for Lebanon

Ambition Frustrated, Sanctuary Preserved

A Ceasefire, Not a Truce

Rearguard Action

The `Fakhani Republic'

Extending the State-in-Exile or Capturing It?

No Lull before the Storm

The Lebanon War

Squaring the Circle: Statehood into Autonomy, 1983-1993

Assaulting the State-in-Exile from Within

Struggle Within, Struggle Without

Intifada to the Rescue

The Road to Oslo

Conclusion

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