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Blurb: “THE PLO: THE STRUGGLE WITHIN
Towards an Independent Palestinian State ALAIN GRESH
The PLO: The Struggle Within is a comprehensive and up-to-date history of the PLO, and of the development of Palestinian political thinking. Based on access to the PLO's own documents and numerous interviews with its leaders, including Chairman Yasser Arafat, the author recounts the major debates that have taken place in the Organization over the past two decades. We learn how the PLO made the difficult transition from the original idea of the destruction of the State of Israel and its replacement by a secular, democratic state where Jews, Muslims and Christians can coexist peaceably, to its current notion of recovering at least some part of Occupied Palestine, and creating there an independent and separate Palestine State alongside Israel. The great diversity of Palestinian political thinking amongst the very different movements that make up the PLO becomes clear.
This change in PLO strategy, and the new divisions that have followed the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, hold out important implications for the pattern of future conflict in the Middle East. Alain Gresh's mature and scholarly history is essential for an understanding of the positions the different strands in the PLO are likely to adopt towards Israel in the coming years.
Alain Gresh was born in Cairo and educated at the Institute of Oriental Languages in Paris and subsequently at l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes where he was awarded his doctorate. Now a journalist, he specializes in Middle Eastern affairs and visits the Region frequently.
"This lucidity of his analysis and seriousness of his purpose makes his work an indispensable aid." André Naef, Tribune de Genève.
"Alain Gresh's book fills a major gap in that he traces the growth of Palestinian political thinking. " La Vie Ourvrière”
ISBN Hb 0 86232 2123
Pb 086232 273 1