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Book SynopsisTells the inside story of three young men caught up in the Palestinian intifada. Through their stories, the tangled and tragic web of the past twenty years of the most enduring conflict in the Middle East unfolds before us.
Trade Review"Readers wanting a look at the lives of young Palestinians and their society will be hard-pressed to find a better book."--Publishers Weekly "A must for all those concerned with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the great value of this contemporary history is that it brings you close-up to the Palestinian people and their politics, revealing the differences among them, differences across generations but also of class, religion, politics, and place... Neither simplistic nor sentimental, Bucaille shows that the conflict with the Israelis is inseparable from the Palestinians' conflict within their own community."--Booklist "Like a painter of miniatures, Laetitia Bucaille describes a multitude of small scenes from the lives of young Palestinians, ushering us into a world view in which death gradually comes to occupy the central role... This book offers a richly detailed look at the rise of that political impasse which engenders suicide bombings and the alarming commitment of martyrs."--Gilles Kepel, Le Monde "Clear, measured and exacting, Growing Up Palestinian is required reading for anyone who professes to have an opinion about the Middle East."--Mary-Lou Zeitoun, Toronto Globe and Mail "Growing Up Palestinian ... concisely opens up whole tableaus of recent Palestinian history and provides a rich basis from which to delve further into that history."--John Collins, Journal of Palestinian Studies
Table of ContentsFOREWORD vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi GLOSSARY xiii INTRODUCTION xv CHAPTER ONE: The Palestinian Intifada: The Revolt against Israeli Occupation, 1987-1994 1 CHAPTER TWO: Building Palestinian Autonomy, 1994-2000 30 CHAPTER THREE: Fault Lines among the Palestinians 56 CHAPTER FOUR: Palestine and Israel: The Impossible Divorce 79 CHAPTER FIVE: Par t-timers of War: The Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2002 111 CONCLUSION 151 NOTES 159 INDEX 165
