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A 5 page overview of the history of the PLO as presented by author Helena Cobban. This paper compares the presentation in the book with the history of the Palestinian resistance, concluding that there are no clearly defined “good guys” or “bad guys”, that both Palestine and Israel are responsible for many injustices. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPplo.rtf
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"The Palestinian Liberation Organization : People, Power and Politics" is a comprehensive analysis of the Palestine Liberation Organization
(PLO) and the people and events which shaped it. The author, Helena Cobban has the benefit of some five years of experience within Beirut as a news correspondent.
This experience pays off in the book in that she supplements documentary sources with her own personal experiences. The origin of the Palestinian movement and its manifestation in Jordan,
Lebanon, Israel, and the West Bank serve as a point of introduction for this topic. Pivotal to the subject, of course, is the group Al-Fateh. Recounting details of the
Fateh leadership and the various factors which interrelate with it, Cobban provides an intricate recounting of how the fate of the Fateh and the PLO have become so thoroughly blended
over the years. Detailed is the internal Palestinian opposition and the Arab milieu as well as the resistance movement which has unfolded inside the Israeli-occupied areas.
"The Palestinian Liberation Organization : People, Power and Politics" offers invaluable insight into the issues surrounding Palestine. Cobban presents a view of the PLO,
however, which doesnt completely jive with popular understanding of the Palestinian issue. The predominant world view that terroristic acts are simply unacceptable, for example, is not shared by radical
Palestinian Islamics who see terrorism as a needed component and acceptable component of their quest for freedom. This view has resulted, in fact, in the unfortunate world view that
the word "Islamic", unlike any terms associated with any other culture in the world, has come to be almost synonymous with the word terrorism. After all, the primary goal
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