The Palestinian Mass Uprising
Date Submitted: 06/03/2003 08:14:19
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 5 pages (1379 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 5 pages (1379 words)
The Intifada: The Palestinian Mass Uprising
----The rise of the PLO to the world stage really
began with the well-known intifada, or mass
uprising, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It was
at the end of 1987 where resistance to Israel's
occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip began
to sharply escalate in the form of demonstrations,
strikes, boycotts, and violence. It came to
involve virtually the whole Palestinian population
in those areas, and …
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…once again, Arafat is trying to rally the
world to the side of the PLO in its ongoing
struggle.
Bibliography
Gerner, Deborah. "The Arab-Israeli Conflict." Intervention into the 1990's. ed. Peter J. Shraeder. Boulder: Rienner Publishers, 1992. pp. 361 - 382.
Nassar, Jamal and Heacock, Roger, eds. Intifada: Palestine at the Crossroads. New York: Praeger, 1990.
Peretz, Don. Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising. Boulder: Westview Press, 1990.
Biographical information taken from: Koury, Philip S. "Arafat, Yasir." Colliers Encyclopedia CD_ROM. Vol.2 1996.
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