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CIAO DATE: 06/02
Winter 2001 (Volume XXX, Number 2, Issue 118)
The Second Uprising: End or New Beginning by Rema Hammami and Salim Tamari
This article examines the al-Aqsa intifada against the background of the Oslo accords and the Camp David summit. Comparing its features to those of the first intifada, it analyzes and develops a number of important differences. These include the structure of the clashes themselves, the religious dimension, the role of the settlements, the role of the media, and, most important, the presence on the ground of a Palestinian protostate apparatus and the diminished role of mass organizations and civil society. The authors end with a discussion of emerging trends within Palestinian politics in response to these events.
Clinton and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Limits of Incrementalism by William B. Quandt
This summary of President Bill Clinton's second term, by the former assistant National Security Council adviser for the Middle East during the Carter administration and a participant in the first Camp David negotiations, provides an insider's assessment of Clinton's legacy. It ends with an analysis of four reasons why Clinton did not achieve more than he did with regard to Middle East peace.
Dahaysha Diary: A View from the Camp by Muna Hamza-Muhaisen
Begun six days after the outbreak of the al-Aqsa intifada and carried day-by-day over the Internet, this diary provides a unique perspective on how events were viewed and lived on the ground as they were happening. More particularly, it conveys a sense of life during these events in the Dahaysha refugee camp, a sprawling conglomerate of 10,000 inhabitants south of Bethlehem. The journal entries in their entirety can be found on http://xii.net/intifada2000/deardiary. The excerpts below were approved by the author.
Al-Aqsa Intifada and the U.S. Media by Seth Ackerman
This report examines what appears to be a systematic absence of context in U.S. reporting on Al-Aqsa intifada. The result is a narrow view of the conflict that ignores the crucial issues of Israel's ongoing occupation and the United States's pro-Israel bias. After looking at daily reportage and editorial commentary, the author examines pressures on the media by Israel and its supporters, whose efforts in the latest crisis have targeted CNN.
Book Reviews
Sacred Landscape. Benevenisti by Ilan PappÈ
Hydropolitics in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Trottier by Frederic C. Hof
Talking With the Enemy. Lieberfeld by Don Peretz
Jordanians, Palestinians, and the Hashemite Kingdom in the Middle East Peace Process. Abu-Odeh by Joseph Massad
Man Without a Gun. Picco by Eric Hooglund
Arabs at the Crossroads. Khashan by As'ad AbuKhalil
Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Islamic Thought. Marlow by Sara Roy
Arab Americans Ignored? by Gregory Orfalea