Intifada (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ze’ev Schiff
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Political history
- Time of Work: 1987-1989
- Setting: Israel and the occupied territories
- Principal Characters: Yasser Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan, Yitzhak Shamir
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, History
- Subjects: Social issues, 1980’s, War, Economics, Nationalism, Israel or Israelis, Middle East, Arabs, Fundamentalism
- Locales: Israel
Israeli journalists Schiff and Ya’ari, who also wrote Israel’s Lebanon War (1984), turn their attention to Israel’s “third front,” the intifada, which they regard as a war wholly new to Israel because it is a popular war fought by civilians using not standard weapons, but rocks, pamphlets, and strikes. Since the war is still in progress, the authors face a substantial interpretive challenge. They must diagnose a patient without the benefit of an autopsy. As the authors point out, the evolving positions of the involved political entities (the PLO, Jordan, the...
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