TY - GEN T1 - The Palestinian national movement : politics of contention, 1967-2005 T2 - Indiana series in Middle East studies. A1 - Jamal, Amal LA - English PP - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press YR - 2005 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn607423222 AB - "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 OP - 229 CN - DS113.7 .J36 2005 SN - 9780253028389 SN - 0253028388 SN - 0253345901 SN - 9780253345905 SN - 0253217733 SN - 9780253217738 KW - Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah. KW - Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah KW - Munaẓẓamat at-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīya KW - Palestinian Arabs : Politics and government : 20th century. KW - Palestiniens : Politique et gouvernement : 20e siècle. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Essays. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : General. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : National. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Reference. KW - HISTORY : Middle East : General. KW - Palestinian Arabs : Politics and government KW - Kroatischer Frühling KW - Palästinenser. KW - 1900-1999 ER -