Summary

Frustrated by the failure of the peace process to end the Israeli occupation, and outraged by Ariel Sharon's invasion, with one thousand armed guards, of the Al-Aqsa holy site in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian population of Israel and the Occupied Territories rose up in September 2000. A new intifada has raged ever since. In these pages, a group of writers and analysts, many of them directly involved in the conflict, trace the origins of the uprising, its consequences for the Palestinian people and the Israeli state, and its likely impact on the future of peace in the Middle East. They discuss the role of the United States in the conflict, pick apart the fraudulence of the Oslo accords, examine the brutal response of the Barak and Sharon governments, and critically appraise the strategy of the Palestinian leadership. In addition, several contributors provide eloquent first-hand reports from the front-line of the intifada'¬ ;from the streets of Jerusalem and Gaza, to refugee camps in Lebanon and schools on the West Bank. Photographs provide searing testimony to the heroism and costs of the resistance. Maps illustrate the stranglehold Israel continues to exert over the Palestinian territories. The case for an international grassroots movement in support of Palestinian rights is made with urgency and persuasive clarity.

Author Biography

Roane Carey is the Managing Editor of the Nation, editor of The New Intifada and co-editor of The Other Israel.

Omar Barghouti is a human rights activist, founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and the BDS movement, and author of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights.

Edward W. Said (1935–2003) was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature and of Kings College Cambridge, his celebrated works include Orientalism, The End of the Peace Process, Power, Politics and Culture, and the memoir Out of Place. He is also the editor, with Christopher Hitchens, of Blaming the Victims, published by Verso. New Left Review published <a href="http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2481">an obituary</a> in Nov–Dec 2003.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of American Power and the New Mandarins, Manufacturing Consent (with Ed Herman), Deterring Democracy, Year 501, World Orders Old and New, Powers and Prospects, Profit over People, The New Military Humanism and Rogue States.

Forword

(3)

Roane Carey

Introduction

(22)

Noam Chomsky

PART I: REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE

Palestinians Under Siege

(18)

Edward W. Said

Under the Gun: A Palestinian Journey

(24)

Ahdaf Soueif

A Smorgasbord of Failure: Oslo and the Al-Aqsa Intifada

(22)

Mouin Rabbani

Decline and Disfigurement: The Palestinian Economy After Oslo

(20)

Sara Roy

The Peace of the Powerful

111

(14)

Glenn E. Robinson

The Agony of Beit Jala

125

(14)

Nidal Barham

The Palestinians of Israel

139

(20)

An Interview

Azmi Bishara

Gaza: A Report From the Front

159

(6)

Alison Weir

Palestine's Tell-Tale Heart

165

(16)

Omar Barghouti

Flouting Convention: The Oslo Agreements

181

(28)

Allegra Pacheco

A Comparative Study of Intifada 1987 and Intifada 2000

209

(12)

Ghassan Andoni

Notes From Dheisheh

221

(12)

Muna Hamzeh

PART II: THE MEDIA WAR

The US Media and the New Intifada

233

(26)

Ali Abunimah

Hussein Ibish

America's Last Taboo

259

(10)

Edward W. Said

PART III: REFUGEES, REMEMBRANCE, RETURN

Banishment: The Palestinian Refugees of Lebanon

269

(18)

Jennifer Loewenstein

Life in the Camps

287

(6)

Mayssoun Sukarieh

``This Is a Place of Filth and Blood...''

293

(6)

Robert Fisk

The Implementation of the Right of Return

299

(22)

Salman Abu Sitta

PART IV: ACTIVISM AWAKENED

The Israeli Peace Movement Since the Al-Aqsa Intifada

321

(12)

Gila Svirsky

Rebuilding Our Activism

333

(12)

Nancy Murray

About the Authors

345

(4)

Resource Guide

349

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