Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Refugee Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,1 (1989) 170-178
Keywords:
Intifada, 1987-1993
;
Palestinian Arabs
;
Arab-Israeli conflict 1987-
;
Eretz Israel History
;
Israel History
;
West Bank
;
Gaza Strip
Abstract:
"For the past four months, the Palestinians who have lived under Israeli military occupation for twenty years on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have mounted what is by all accounts one of the most extraordinary anticolonial mass insurrections in modern times. What has made this uprising or intifada so unusual is that the antagonists - Palestinians and Israelis - are no ordinary people, and what they dispute is perhaps the most unusual piece of territory in history; Palestine is a land drenched in historical, religious, political and cultural significance. Palestine is central to Christianity, Islam and Judaism. If we recall the Crusades, the history of Western culture and thought, as well as Islamic and Judaic traditions, to say nothing of Christianity's culture, we gain some measure of the richness and radiance of Palestine, which is now convulsed by unpleasant and oppressive struggles".
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