Countdown to statehood : Palestinian state formation in the West Bank and Gaza / / Hillel Frisch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910958341003321
• Autore: Frisch Hillel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1998
• ISBN: 9781438403410; 1438403410
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series in Israeli studies
• Disciplina: 956.94/0049274
• Soggetti: Palestinian Arabs - Politics and government; Nationalism - Palestine
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 Territorialization and State Formation -- 2 The PLO, Territorialization, and Palestinian State Formation -- 3 Territorializing the PLO -- 4 Education and State Building -- 5 The Intifada and State Building -- 6 The Madrid Peace Process and the Challenge of the Inside -- 7 Countdown to Statehood -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: A study of Palestinian state formation in comparison to Zionist experiences.Countdown to Statehood, based on Arabic, English, and Hebrew language sources, analyzes the form that the Palestinian state is likely to take. The book looks at past institution-building patterns in the West Bank and Gaza, the relationship between the PLO and the local Palestinians, and the nature of the conflict with Israel from 1967 through the first year of the Palestinian Authority under Arafat's leadership.A major reference point in this analysis is the Zionist experience of state-building in Israel's own pre-independence era. Not only did the Zionist experience serve as a model of a successful protagonist that Palestinians wished to emulate, but both also began as diaspora-based. These similarities and, even more so, the dissimilarities between these two struggles for national determination allow the reader to assess the potential likenesses and disparities of the future Palestinian state compared to its Israeli counterpart. The ; concluding chapter analyzes the findings in the broader context of third-world state-building by arguing, contrary to the common wisdom that "war makes the state," that more peaceful routes to statehood lead to better states in the post-independence era.