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.
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"A younger Palestinian scholar, Yezid Sayigh, shows by contrast that the political narrative can be reconstructed. Sayigh's monumental new history of the Palestinian national movement, Armed Struggle and the Search for State does this in all its bewilderingly intricate detail."--Independent Saturday Magazine
"...an achievement which will be with us long after hundreds of books on the subject are forgotten."--The Spectator
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Yezid Sayigh is Assistant Director of Studies at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge
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Most accurate and comprehensive history of the PLO,
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This is probably the best and most accurate history of the PLO and how/why it evoved over the years from a national liberation struggle to a state in-formation movement, and the complications and pitfalls in this transformation. Well written and exhaustively comprehensive, this book is for those who already have a strong grasp of Israeli/Palestinian history and want to further thier understanding.
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Reflecting the Palestinian reality,
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A very inquisitive and comprehensive study into the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom, independence, and democracy.
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The 1947-8 war marked the end of a lengthy chapter in the conflict between Arab and Jew for possession of Palestine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
higher central committee, rentier politics, higher military council, fugitive patrols, leader junblat, veteran infiltrators, statist transformation, struggle apparatus, steadfastness funds, statist drive, unified security apparatus, central operations room, central information department, military action committee, steadfastness front, guerrilla sectors, joint operations room, other guerrilla groups, guerrilla contingent, guerrilla reinforcements, mobilization branch, popular liberation war, principal guerrilla groups, truce committee, leftist cadres Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Muslim Brotherhood, Bath Party, Saudi Arabia, Gaza Strip, Middle East, Abu Nidal, Palestinian Left, Camp David, Phalanges Party, Suez Canal, Yarmuk Forces, South Yemen, Jordan Valley, Third World, Qadisiyya Forces, Golan Heights, Jalut Forces, Hittin Forces, Tel Aviv, Islamic Liberation Party, Palestine Borders Guard, Free Officers, Qastal Forces, Karama Forces, Samih Abu-Kwayk New!
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The 1947-8 war marked the end of a lengthy chapter in the conflict between Arab and Jew for possession of Palestine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
higher central committee, rentier politics, higher military council, fugitive patrols, leader junblat, veteran infiltrators, statist transformation, struggle apparatus, steadfastness funds, statist drive, unified security apparatus, central operations room, central information department, military action committee, steadfastness front, guerrilla sectors, joint operations room, other guerrilla groups, guerrilla contingent, guerrilla reinforcements, mobilization branch, popular liberation war, principal guerrilla groups, truce committee, leftist cadres Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Muslim Brotherhood, Bath Party, Saudi Arabia, Gaza Strip, Middle East, Abu Nidal, Palestinian Left, Camp David, Phalanges Party, Suez Canal, Yarmuk Forces, South Yemen, Jordan Valley, Third World, Qadisiyya Forces, Golan Heights, Jalut Forces, Hittin Forces, Tel Aviv, Islamic Liberation Party, Palestine Borders Guard, Free Officers, Qastal Forces, Karama Forces, Samih Abu-Kwayk New!
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