Armed Struggle and the Search for State
The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993
Yezid Sayigh
Table of Contents
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