The Palestinian national movement : politics of contention, 1967-2005

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Title:

Author:

Jamal, Amal.

ISBN:

9780253345905

9780253217738

Personal Author:

Jamal, Amal.

Publication Information:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Physical Description:

xviii, 229 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Indiana series in Middle East studies

Series Title:

Indiana series in Middle East studies

Contents:

The structural and historical context -- From dissension to coordination : the PLO leadership and the national elite in the occupied territories -- Mobilization under control : the political economy of steadfastness -- Engineering compliance : new modes of political entrepreneurship and the co-optation of contenders -- Seizing structural opportunities : the Islamist elite and the framing of authenticity discourse -- The politics of symbolic capital and the institutionalization of neopatrimonial power -- The second intifada and its impact on elite structures.

Subject Term:

Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

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Summary

"A comprehensive, up-to-date account of the dynamics in the Palestinian political arena." --Ann M. Lesch, Villanova University

This innovative study examines the internal dynamics of the Palestinian political elite and their impact on the struggle to establish a Palestinian state. The PLO leadership has sought to prevent the rise of any alternative in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that can challenge its authority to represent Palestinian aspirations for self-determination. Drawing on Palestinian sources and interviews with Palestinian political leaders, Jamal argues that the Fatah leadership has attempted to mobilize new social forces--local secular-nationalist and Islamist movements--while undermining their ability to develop independent power structures. This policy has served to radicalize the younger local elites, contributing to the tensions that precipitated the first and second intifadas. Israel's policies have undermined the legitimacy of the national elite, while enhancing the Islamist opposition's ideological legitimacy. In this way, internal elite disunity and growing political differentiation have worked against development of a common Palestinian strategy of state-building.