Fedayeen : the Arab-Israeli dilemma / John Laffin.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:London : Cassell, 1973وصف:xiv, 160, [9] pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0304291897 (hbk)
- 9780304291892 (hbk)
- DS119.7 L25 1973
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مجموعة الكتب النادرة | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات Rare Books Collection | قاعة الكتب النادرة | DS119.7 L25 1973 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000313155 |
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DS119.7 H9 1950 The struggle for Palestine / | DS119.7 I73 1986 The Papacy and the Middle East : the role of the Holy See in the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1962-1984 / | DS119.7 K48 1968 The Arab-Israeli dilemma / | DS119.7 L25 1973 Fedayeen : the Arab-Israeli dilemma / | DS119.7 M47 1968 The search for peace in the Middle East : the story of President Bourguiba's campaign for a negotiated peace between Israel and the Arab States / | DS119.7 R37 1970 The art of the possible : diplomatic alternatives in the Middle East / | DS119.7 S24 1972 Fedayeen : guerrillas against Israel / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fedayeen, in Arabic, means men ""who sacrifice themselves"" yet ironically, according to Laffin, journalist and military strategist, their terrorist efforts have been counter-productive or without effect. ""The Palestinian Fedayeen organizations -- the force that never was -- could more benefit their own people by going out of business altogether."" Divided in their goals -- are Israel or the conservative Arab states the real enemy? -- the various factions squabble among themselves, plot inter-group assassinations, alienate world opinion by bloody acts, misjudge Israeli strength (""What little knowledge they possess is distorted to fit preconceived ideas""), try to boost their image and their egos by making ill-founded comparisons with more successful revolutionary movements. ""Resistance has become an industry"" in which every groupuscule has a vested interest; the leadership is ""neurotic and apprehensive, given to fits of despair,"" and for the rank and file -- ill-trained, ill-equipped, half-educated, unprepared for any peacetime trade -- ""Fedayeenism is a way of life, a trade and a state of mind."" Decidedly pro-Israel, heatedly anti-Palestinian, Laffin can find praise only for the Movement's efforts to involve and emancipate Arab women. His book is little more than an attempt to deflate an already tattered revolutionary mystique.