The Intifada: Its Impact on Israel, the Arab World, and the Superpowers

ISBN 10: 0813010403 / ISBN 13: 9780813010403

Published by University Press of Florida, 1991

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1991 hardcover clean crisp unmarked pages dust jacket shows wear 417 pages out of print title M-2.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Intifada: Its Impact on Israel, the Arab World, and the Superpowers
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813010403
• ISBN 13: 9780813010403
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used: Very Good

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Synopsis

"Contains much useful and illuminating material--principally but not exclusively for a specialist audience--on the nature and origins of the Intifada itself, the wider strategic and geopolitical implications and the likely political and economic consequences for Israel."--<i>Times Literary Supplement<i>

Contents
Section I - The Nature of the Intifada
1. The Intifada and the Palestinian Uprising of 1936-1939: A Comparison, by Ken Stein
2. The Intifada in the Context of Armed Struggle, by Bard  O’Neill
3. The PLO and the Intifada, by Helena Cobban
Section II - The Response of External Actors to the Intifada
4. U.S. Policy, by David Pollock
5. Soviet Policy, by Robert O. Freedman
6. The Arab World, by Gregory Gause
7. American Jewry, by George Gruen
Section III - The Impact of the Intifada on Israeli Politics and Society
8. Israeli Public Opinion and the Intifada, by Asher Arian
9. The Likud Party, by Nathan Yanai
10. The Labor Party, by Myron Aronoff
11. Israeli Arabs, by Elie Rekhees
12. The Israeli Economy, by Howard Rosen

Robert Owen Freedman is professor of political science and dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Baltimore Hebrew University

Reviews

This collection of essays on the Palestinian uprising known as the "Intifada" was presented at a conference in December 1989 at the Baltimore Hebrew College. The papers have been organized into three sections: one deals with a comparative analysis to previous Palestinian political movements. The second part develops the role of the superpowers in Middle Eastern politics and examines American and Israeli Jewish attitudes towards the uprising. The third section is, perhaps, the real contribution: a discussion of the impact of the Intifada on the Israeli polity, society, and the Arab minority. There is a wide spectrum of views presented here, providing remarkable balance. Certainly worthy of study along with Intifada , edited by Jamal K. Nassar and Roger Heacock (Praeger, 1990), Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv's Beyond the Uprising (Greenwood, 1989), and Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari's Intifada ( LJ 3/1/90). For subject collections. See also Robert Hunter's The Palestinian Uprising , reviewed on p. 125.--Ed.
- Sanford R. Silverburg, Catawba Coll., Salisbury,
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