The Palestinian Liberation Organisation : people, power, and politics
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The Palestinian Liberation Organisation : people, power, and politics
(Cambridge Middle East library)
Cambridge University Press, 1984
- pbk.
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 299-305
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a comprehensive political analysis of the PLO. A correspondent in Beirut from 1976 to 1981, Helena Cobban has been able to study developments at close quarters and use documentary sources and first-hand recollections which have never been included in previous Western analyses of the movement. The book maintains that one key to understanding the development of the PLO is an examination of the development of its predominant member-group, Al-Fateh. The first part focuses on the history of Fateh, showing how its interests and the PLO's became intertwined. The latter part discusses the interrelations between the Fateh leadership and various factors which affect and are affected by its performance, such as the internal Palestinian opposition, the Arab milieu, and the resistance movement inside the Israeli-occupied areas. The final chapter draws together all the strands to arrive at the precise sources of the Fateh leadership's relative stability, as well as to assess its effectiveness in key areas of its operations.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The PLO in the 1980s
- Part I. History of the PLO Mainstream: 2. The phoenix hatches 1948-67
- 3. The joy of flying 1967-73
- 4. Caught in the Lebanon net (1973-76)
- 5. The net tightens (1977-80
- 6. The broken wing (1981-February 1983)
- Part II. Internal Relations: 7. Non-Fateh guerrilla groups
- 8. The movement inside historic Palestine
- Part III. External Relations: 9. Arab relations
- 10. International relations
- Conclusions
- 11. The irresistible force and the immovable object
- Appendixes
- Notes
- References and select bibliography
- Illustrations.
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