Description: The story of the Intifada in the Gaza Strip, with its tragic and inspiring outcomes, is slowly fading from the world's collective memory. In the final weeks of 1987, however, this small strip of land became a major battleground for a national rebellion with repercussions that ...
Brief description: HAIM GORDON is Professor of Education at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev-Israel. Professor Gordon has published extensively, his latest project is a Dictionary of Existentialism (Greenwood Press, 1999).
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"In this highly readable book, two Israeli scholars and a Palestinian freelance journalist explain the plight of the Palestinians through personal narratives of six Palestinians. Their painful stories present unique appreciation of the complexities of the forces that have shaped the Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation since 1987. Highly recommended." --Choice Reviews
"A deeply personal and emotionally moving account that lends human faces to the strife and turmoil that have been ongoing within the Holy Land, Beyond Intifada is a welcome contribution to International Studies collections with respect to the Palestinian/Israeli ethnic, political, cultural, and national disputes." --Wisconsin Bookwatch "The book's valuable contribution is its details of political life and resistance under Israeli occupation, from the crushing poverty of life in the camps, to the humiliation, beating, threats, arrests, sexual harassment, prison experiences, and use of collaborators by the occupation authorities to suppress any buds of national resistance. Readers unfamiliar with the history of Gaza Strip no doubt will find the 'banalities of the occupation' shocking, especially to learn how Israel deliberately prevented the establishment of adequate medical facilities and even made the possession of fax machines illegal." --Journal of Palestine Studies