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Yasir Arafat

Author : Barry Rubin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019029275X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Yasir Arafat written by Barry Rubin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yasir Arafat stands as one of the most resilient, recognizable and controversial political figures of modern times. The object of unrelenting suspicion, steady admiration and endless speculation, Arafat has occupied the center stage of Middle East politics for almost four decades. Yasir Arafat is the most comprehensive political biography of this remarkable man. Forged in a tumultuous era of competing traditionalism, radicalism, Arab nationalism, and Islamist forces, the Palestinian movement was almost entirely Arafat's creation, and he became its leader at an early age. Arafat took it through a dizzying series of crises and defeats, often of his own making, yet also ensured that it survived, grew, and gained influence. Disavowing terrorism repeatedly, he also practiced it constantly. Arafat's elusive behavior ensured that radical regimes saw in him a comrade in arms, while moderates backed him as a potential partner in peace. After years of devotion to armed struggle, Arafat made a dramatic agreement with Israel that let him return to his claimed homeland and transformed him into a legitimized ruler. Yet at the moment of decision at the Camp David summit and afterward, when he could have achieved peace and a Palestinian state, he sacrificed the prize he had supposedly sought for the struggle he could not live without. Richly populated with the main events and dominant leaders of the Middle East, this detailed and analytical account by Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin follows Arafat as he moves to Kuwait, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, and finally to Palestinian-ruled soil. It shows him as he rewrites his origins, experiments with guerrilla war, develops a doctrine of terrorism, fights endless diplomatic battles, and builds a movement, constantly juggling states, factions, and world leaders. Whole generations and a half-dozen U.S. presidents have come and gone over the long course of Arafat's career. But Arafat has outlasted them all, spanning entire eras, with three constants always present: he has always survived, he has constantly seemed imperiled, and he has never achieved his goals. While there has been no substitute for Arafat, the authors conclude, Arafat has been no substitute for a leader who could make peace.

Arafat, a Political Biography

Author : Alan Hart
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253327116
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Arafat, a Political Biography written by Alan Hart and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Yasser Arafat

Author : George Headlam
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822550044
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Yasser Arafat written by George Headlam and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life and political career of Yasser Arafat, including his founding of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement and his time as leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Arafat

Author : Tony Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753508886
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Arafat written by Tony Walker and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's over thirty years since Yasser Arafat swept onto the world stage as leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, a machine gun in one hand and an olive branch in the other. In that time he has become many things to many people: terrorist, a Nobel Peace Prize-winner and to the Bush Whitehouse, a Pariah once more. Based on hundreds of frank and revealing interviews with senior Israeli and Palestine officials, including Arafat himself, Arafat: The Biography documents his transition from terrorist to statesman then marginalisation following the tragic collapse of the Oslo Peace Accords. Examining the charge that the bitter personal blood-fued between Arafat and Isreal's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is a major obstacle to peace in the Middle-East, this book separates Arafat the man from Arafat the myth. A penetrating, balanced insight into the international and intelligence links, and the internal machinery, of the Palestinian regime.

Arafat's War

Author : Efraim Karsh
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555846602
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Arafat's War written by Efraim Karsh and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted historian analyzes Yasser Arafat’s role in destabilizing the Middle East in a book praised as “eye-opening and exhaustively researched” (New York Post). Offering the first comprehensive account of the collapse of the most promising peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, historian Efraim Karsh details Arafat’s efforts since the historic Oslo Accords in building an extensive terrorist infrastructure, his failure to disarm the extremist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and the Palestinian Authority’s systematic efforts to indoctrinate hate and contempt for the Israeli people through rumor and religious zealotry. Arafat has irrevocably altered the Middle East’s political landscape, and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict will always be Arafat’s war.

Arafat

Author : Saïd K. Aburish
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747544301
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Arafat written by Saïd K. Aburish and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-09-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Palestinian leader

Arafat

Author : Tony Walker
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852279240
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Arafat written by Tony Walker and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993.

Arafat and the Dream of Palestine

Author : Bassam Abu Sharif
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230621295
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Arafat and the Dream of Palestine by : Bassam Abu Sharif

Download or read book Arafat and the Dream of Palestine written by Bassam Abu Sharif and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abu Sharif was one of the world's most notorious and dangerous terrorists in the 60's and 70's, acting as "minister of propaganda" for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and as a recruiter for terrorists like Carlos the Jackal. In 1972, a bomb was placed in a book and sent to him, leaving him half-blind, deaf in one ear, and almost fingerless. Finally abandoning the use of violence as a means to achieve his Palestinian nationalist aspirations, he aligned himself with Yasser Arafat, eventually becoming one of his closest advisors. In this book, Abu Sharif, often alongside Arafat, takes us behind the scenes of all the major events in the Middle East during the last 30 years, from the secret caves in the West Bank where Arafat hid on his way to Jerusalem in 1967 to the peace negotiations in Oslo in 1993. Arafat and the Dream of Palestine combines a deeply personal account, informed by Abu Sharif's close relationship with Arafat, with a gripping, profoundly human history of Palestine.

Arafat and Abbas

Author : Menachem Klein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197513816
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Arafat and Abbas written by Menachem Klein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark volume presents vivid and intimate portraits of Palestinian Presidents Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, revealing the impact these different personalities have had on the struggle for national self-determination. Arafat and Abbas lived in Palestine as young children. Uprooted by the 1948 war, they returned in 1994 to serve as the first and second presidents of the Palestinian Authority, the establishment of which has been the Palestine Liberation Organization's greatest step towards self-determination for the Palestinian nation. Both Arafat and Abbas were shaped by earlier careers in the PLO, and each adopted their own controversial leadership methods and decision-making styles. Drawing on primary sources in Arabic, Hebrew and English, Klein gives special attention to the lesser known Abbas: his beliefs and his disagreements with Israeli and American counterparts. The book uncovers new details about Abbas' peace talks and US foreign policy towards Palestine, and analyses the political evolution of Hamas and Abbas' succession struggle. Klein also highlights the tension between the ageing leader and his society. Arafat and Abbas offers a comprehensive and balanced account of the Palestinian Authority's achievements and failures over its twenty- five years of existence. What emerges is a Palestinian nationalism that refuses to disappear.

Once an Arafat Man

Author : Tass Saada
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414323611
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Once an Arafat Man written by Tass Saada and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Palestinian sniper discusses his subsequent life in America, the religious experience which resulted in his conversion to Christianity, and his founding of a humanitarian organization which works toward a reconciliation between Palestinans and Jews.

Behind the Myth

Author : Andrew Gowers
Publisher : Interlink Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Myth written by Andrew Gowers and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 1992 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the evening of December 14, 1988, in a crowded conference room in Geneva's Palais des Nations, Yasser Arafat opened a new chapter in the tangled and bloody history of the Palestinian resistance movement he has led for over 20 years. In a political departure that friends and foes alike had long doubled he would ever be able to make, Arafat explicitly recognized Israel, renounced terrorism and set out in search of recognition from the West and a peaceful solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict."--Book Jacket.

Saddam Hussein

Author : Efraim Karsh
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802139788
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Saddam Hussein written by Efraim Karsh and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, experts on Middle East history and politics, have combined their expertise to write what is largely considered the definitive work of one of the world's most reviled and notorious figures. Drawing on a wealth of Iraqi, Arab, Western and Israeli sources, including interviews with people who have had close contact with Saddam Hussein throughout his career, the authors trace the meteoric transformation of an ardent nationalist and obscure Ba'th party member into an absolute dictator. Skillfully interweaving a realistic analysis of Gulf politics and history, and now including a new introduction and epilogue, this authoritative biography is essential for understanding the mind of a modern tyrant.

Arafat, Terrorist Or Peacemaker?

Author : Alan Hart
Publisher : Sidgwick & Jackson Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780283990083
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Arafat, Terrorist Or Peacemaker? written by Alan Hart and published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited. This book was released on 1984 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beschouwing over de betekenis van de leider van de Palestijnse bevrijdingsorganisatie PLO

My Country, My Life

Author : Ehud Barak
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466892080
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book My Country, My Life written by Ehud Barak and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD The definitive memoir of one of Israel's most influential soldier-statesmen and one-time Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, with insights into forging peace in the Middle East. In the summer of 2000, the most decorated soldier in Israel's history—Ehud Barak—set himself a challenge as daunting as any he had faced on the battlefield: to secure a final peace with the Palestinians. He would propose two states for two peoples, with a shared capital in Jerusalem. He knew the risks of failure. But he also knew the risks of not trying: letting slip perhaps the last chance for a generation to secure genuine peace. It was a moment of truth. It was one of many in a life intertwined, from the start, with that of Israel. Born on a kibbutz, Barak became commander of Israel's elite special forces, then army Chief of Staff, and ultimately, Prime Minister. My Country, My Life tells the unvarnished story of his—and his country's—first seven decades; of its major successes, but also its setbacks and misjudgments. He offers candid assessments of his fellow Israeli politicians, of the American administrations with which he worked, and of himself. Drawing on his experiences as a military and political leader, he sounds a powerful warning: Israel is at a crossroads, threatened by events beyond its borders and by divisions within. The two-state solution is more urgent than ever, not just for the Palestinians, but for the existential interests of Israel itself. Only by rediscovering the twin pillars on which it was built—military strength and moral purpose—can Israel thrive.

The Global Offensive

Author : Paul Thomas Chamberlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0199811393
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Global Offensive written by Paul Thomas Chamberlin and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Offensive shows how Palestinian liberation fighters - inspired and supported by other revolutionary groups in the Third World - waged a military and diplomatic campaign between 1967 and 1975 that seized the world's attention. Meanwhile, the United States and its allies in the region struggled to contain this revolutionary new force in the Middle East.

Once Upon a Country

Author : Sari Nusseibeh
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1250098750
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon a Country written by Sari Nusseibeh and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A teacher, a scholar, a philosopher, and an eyewitness to history, Sari Nusseibeh is one of our most urgent and articulate authorities on the conflict in the Middle East. From his time teaching side by side with Israelis at the Hebrew University through his appointment by Yasir Arafat to administer the Arab Jerusalem, he has held fast to the principles of freedom and equality for all, and his story dramatizes the consequences of war, partition, and terrorism as few other books have done. This autobiography brings rare depth and compassion to the story of his country.

Palestine Betrayed

Author : Efraim Karsh
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300169450
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Palestine Betrayed written by Efraim Karsh and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1947 UN resolution to partition Palestine irrevocably changed the political landscape of the Middle East, giving rise to six full-fledged wars between Arabs and Jews, countless armed clashes, blockades, and terrorism, as well as a profound shattering of Palestinian Arab society. Its origins, and that of the wider Arab-Israeli conflict, are deeplyrooted in Jewish-Arab confrontation and appropriation in Palestine. But the isolated occasions of violence during the British Mandate era (1920–48) suggest that the majority of Palestinian Arabs yearned to live and thrive under peaceful coexistence with the evolving Jewish national enterprise. So what was the real cause of the breakdown in relations between the two communities?In this brave and groundbreaking book, Efraim Karshtells the story from both the Arab and Jewish perspectives. Heargues that from the early 1920s onward, a corrupt and extremist leadership worked toward eliminating the Jewish national revival and protecting its own interests. Karsh has mined many of the Western, Soviet, UN, and Israeli documents declassified over the past decade, as well as unfamiliar Arab sources, to reveal what happened behind the scenes on both Palestinian and Jewish sides. It is an arresting story of delicate political and diplomatic maneuvering by leading figures—Ben Gurion, Hajj Amin Husseini, Abdel Rahman Azzam, King Abdullah, Bevin, and Truman —over the years leading up to partition, through the slide to war and its enduring consequences. Palestine Betrayed is vital reading for understanding the origin of disputes that remain crucial today.