Armed Struggle and the Search for State

The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993

Yezid Sayigh

Armed Struggle and the Search for State

The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993

Yezid Sayigh

Description

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.

Armed Struggle and the Search for State

The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993

Yezid Sayigh

Introduction
Part One: Searching for Palestine, 1949-66
Chapter One: Why Palestinian Nationalism?
Chapter Two: Palestinians in Arab Uniform
Chapter Three: Rebirth of the Palestinian National Movement
Chapter Four: The Watershed
Chapter Five: Challenges of the Armed Struggle
Part Two: Years of Revolution, 1967-72
Chapter Six: Transforming Defeat into Opportunity
Chapter Seven: Carving Out the Guerrilla Sanctuary
Chapter Eight: Guerrilla War in Theory and Practice
Chapter Nine: The Making of the Palestinian Political System
Chapter Ten: Dual Power
Chapter Eleven: End of a Myth
Chapter Twelve: Interregnum
Part Three: State in Exile, 1973-82
Chapter Thirteen: At the Crossroads
Chapter Fourteen: The Lebanese Crisis
Chapter Fifteen: The Struggle for Lebanon
Chapter Sixteen: Ambition Frustrated, Sanctuary Preserved
Chapter Seventeen: A Ceasefire, not a Truce
Chapter Eighteen: Rearguard Action
Chapter Nineteen: The State-in-Exile
Chapter Twenty: Extending the State-in-Exile or Capturing It?
Chapter Twenty-One: No Lull Before the Storm
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Lebanon War
Part Four: Squaring the Circle: Statehood Into Autonomy, 1983-93
Chapter Twenty-Three: Assaulting the State-in-Exile from Within
Chapter Twenty-Four: Struggle Within, Struggle Without
Chapter Twenty-Five: Intifada to the Rescue
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Road to Oslo
Conclusion

Armed Struggle and the Search for State

The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993

Yezid Sayigh

Reviews and Awards

"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