The PFLP's Changing Role in the Middle East - Rilegato

Cubert, Harold M.

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ISBN 10: 0714647721 ISBN 13: 9780714647722

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1997

Riassunto

This is a history of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a violent Marxist faction within the Palestinian national movement. Cubert explores the group's background and provides an analysis of its aims, methods, structures and the factors responsible for its decline.

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This is a history of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a violent Marxist faction within the Palestinian national movement. Taking a politically neutral approach, Cubert explores the group's background and provides an analysis of its aims, methods, structures and the factors responsible for its decline. The PFLP rejects any settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict that falls short of the total elimination of Israel and the establishement of an independent state on what it claims to be Palestinian land. It is implacably hostile to the US and its allies in Europe and the Middle East and is committed to a strategy of armed conflict. Cubert contrasts the PFLP with the more moderate Fatah, the dominant faction within the PLO. He notes that unlike the Fatah, which was prepared to compromise with the West and has transformed itself from an underground movement to a quasi-govenrment with strong international ties, the PFLP has by contrast become increasingly isolated. It can do nothing without the approval of the Syrian government and Syria is moving towards peace with Israel.

Contenuti:

Jewish Chronicle- "an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Middle Eastern politics"

MESA Bulletine -"Harold M. Cuthbert offers a detailed study of the movement, but fails to make an origional or insightful contribution. The biographical list is impressive although the author is far more familiar with journalistic than scholarly sources".

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0714647721
• ISBN 13: 9780714647722
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 250