Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond

by David McDowall

Book Overview

In this thoroughly researched and highly topical book, David McDowall considers the Palestinian uprising from a historical, social, and political perspective, and carefully reassesses the prospects... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520076532
• ISBN13: 9780520076532
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

palestinean uprising

McDowall really makes a good effort in the book by investigating as much as he can in the context. He seems to be more sympathetic to the palestinian view than the Zionist one. He clearly tends to view the Palestinian uprising as a succesful event in the history of Palestinian efforts against Israeli state. He considers the uprising as a revolt of an occupied, colonized third-world people and it is the latest stage of Arab struggle against Zionism and Israel. The major strength of his arguement in this book is his analysis of the present(for the time it was written) and projections for the future. He critically reassesses the prospects for a settlement for the Arab-Israeli conflict. His analysis of taking the conflict as a intra-community instead of intra-state is a good effort. Also the international and super-power aspects are taken by him from a realist perspective. It is not a book which can be rated as perfect but it is good enough for the days it was written. Today in the year 2000 we can say that his predictions are far from reality.