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CIAO DATE: 07/06
Spring 2006 (Volume XXXV, Number 3, Issue 139)
Table of Contents (PDF, 3 pages, 136 KB)
FROM THE EDITOR 5
ARTICLE
This report analyzes Palestinian opinion surveys over the past decade, tracking the shifting levels of support for Fatah and political Islam according to various indicators (e.g., refugee status, age, gender, occupation, and income level) and linking the shifts to political developments on the ground; the data are organized to highlight the impact of the second intifada. Among the interesting findings is the sharp gender division in support for the two movements, with women constituting the majority of political Islam’s support and men dominating support for Fatah. Less surprising is Hamas’s growing support in the poorest segment of the population, showing a degree of social “class” polarization. The author ends with a brief analysis of the results of the 2006 legislative elections in the light of the survey findings.
REPORT
The Democratic Resistance: Hamas, Fatah, and the Palestinian Elections, Graham Usher 20
This article examines the lead-up to the recent Palestinian legislative elections, looking especially at the Fatah's long-brewing internal crisis, born of Fatah’s inability to reconcile its role as a national liberation movement with that as ruling party of the Palestinian Authority. The author assesses the impact of the new reality presented by Hamas’s victory on Hamas, Fatah, and the international community, specifically addressing the post-election strategy put forward by certain Fatah elements, and backed by the United States, to undermine Hamas's victory by shifting power away from the Hamas-dominated legislative branch to the executive under the presidency of Mahmud Abbas.
OPEN FORUM: STRATEGIZING PALESTINE, edited by George Bisharat and Beshara Doumani
Preparing for the Inevitable Negotiation, Omar M. Dajani 39
A Strategy within a Non-Strategy: Sumud, Resistance, Attrition, and Advocacy, Jeff Halper 45
Putting Palestine Back on the Map: Boycott as Civil Resistance, Omar Barghouti 51
Choices of Law, Fragments of History: On Litigating in the Israeli Legal System, Marwan Dalal 57
Underclass Citizens: Palestinians in Israel, Jamil Dakwar 62
The Refugee Question, Ghada Hashem Talhami 67
Palestine and Main Street, U.S.A.: Transforming American Public Opinion, Jaleh Bisharat 72
“Intellectual Warfare” and the Question of Palestine, Saree Makdisi 78
SPECIAL DOCUMENT FILE
The Israeli Lobby: Study by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, with Commentaries by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, William Pfaff, Daniel Levy, Joseph Massad, Noam Chomsky, and Mark Mazower 83
RECENT BOOKS
Cobham and Kanafani: The Economics of Palestine: Economic Policy and Institutional Reform for a Viable Palestinian State, reviewed by Fadle M. Naqib 115
Rothenberg: Spirits of Palestine: Gender, Society, and Stories of the Jinn, reviewed by Lisa Suhair Majaj 116
Dabbagh: Suicide in Palestine: Narratives of Despair, reviewed by Sylvie Mansour 117
Sandercock et al: Peace under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement, reviewed by Zachary Wales 118
Reinhart: Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948, reviewed by Eric Hooglund 119
Alternative Tourism Group: Palestine and Palestinians: Guidebook, reviewed by Ilan Papp é 120
Tuten: Between Capital and Land: The Jewish Nationa Fund’s Finances and Land-Purchase Priorities in Palestine, 1939–45, reviewed by Walter Lehn 122
Zertal: Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood, reviewed by Mark Chmiel 123
Rose: The Myths of Zionism, reviewed by Oren Yiftachel 124
Anderson: Nationalist Voices in Jordan and Lucas: Institutions and the Politics of Survival in Jordan, reviewed by Waleed Hazbun 126
Shorter Notices 127
ARAB VIEWS (cartoons from al-Hayat) 131
FROM THE HEBREW PRESS 133
PHOTOS FROM THE QUARTER 144
QUARTERLY UPDATE ON CONFLICT AND DIPLOMACY 149
SETTLEMENT MONITOR 179
DOCUMENTS AND SOURCE MATERIAL
International
A1. Jon Elmer, “Good Night Battle of Britain, Good Morning Gaza,” Briarpatch, Regina, Canada, December 2005 (excerpts) 191
A2. UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Humanitarian Update on Emerging Humanitarian Risks in the Occupied Territories, Jerusalem, January 2006 (excerpts) 193
A3. United Nations, Humanitarian Impact of the West Bank Barrier: Palestinian Access to Agricultural Land, New York, January 2006 (excerpts) 195
A4. International Crisis Group (ICG), “Enter Hamas: The Challenges of Political Integration,” Amman and Brussels, 18 January 2006 (excerpts) 198
A5. Representatives of the Quartet, Statement on the Palestinian Legislative Elections, London, 30 January 2006 204
Arab
B1. Khalid Mishal, Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Commentary on the Hamas Victory, Damascus, 31 January 2006 205
B2. PA President Mahmud Abbas, Address to the Second Palestinian Legislative Council, Ramallah, 18 February 2006 (excerpts) 206
Israel
C1. Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Address to the Sixth Herzliya Conference, Herzliya, 24 January 2006 (excerpts) 208
C2. Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, Address to the Sixth Herzliya Conference, Herzliya, 21 January 2006 (excerpts) 210
C3. Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Statement on the Hamas Legislative Victory, Jerusalem, 29 January 2006 211
C4. Israeli Cabinet, Decision on Government Measures vis-ŕ-vis the Palestinian Authority following the Swearing In of the New Palestinian Legislative Council, Jerusalem, 19 February 2006 212
C5. B’Tselem, Summary Finding of Research on Israel’s De Facto Annexation of the Jordan Valley, Jerusalem, 13 February 2006 . 212
United States
D1. U.S. House of Representatives, Resolution Expressing Opposition to Hamas’s Participation in the Palestinian Elections, Washington, 16 December 2006 214
C2. U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney, Address to the Annual AIPAC Conference, Washington, 7 March 2006 (excerpts) 215
CHRONOLOGY
16 November–15 February 2005 218
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE 240