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Yasser Arafat and the politics of paranoia : a painful legacy

Title
Yasser Arafat and the politics of paranoia : a painful legacy / David Bukay.
Author
Bukay, David.
Publication
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.

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Description
iii, 403 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Primarily penned before his passing, this work aims to prove that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "has been the ultimate arch-terrorist for over 50 years." Bukay (political science, U. of Haifa, Israel) asserts many familiar charges against the leader of the "terrorist national Palestinian movement," frequently arguing that they are the result of essential characteristics of the Arab culture. He contends that Arafat's sole political aim has been to "destroy Israel," and he lays almost the entirety of the Israel-Palestine conflict at Arafat's door (and the votes he mysteriously attracts in the UN General Assembly). While some of Bukay's allegations against Arafat are grounded in truth, the uninformed reader will be hard pressed to distinguish facts from what serious students of the conflict will recognize as distortions commonly lobbed by pro-occupation Zionists. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Subject
  • Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004
  • Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004 > Psychology
  • Arafat, Yasir, 1929-2004
  • ʻArafāt, Yāsir
  • Palestinian Arabs > Biography
  • Palestinian Arabs > Politics and government
  • Arab-Israeli conflict
  • Palestinian Arabs
  • Psychology
  • Palestinians
  • Biographies, memoirs and correspondance
  • Palestine Liberation Organization
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-395) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Christopher Barder -- Introduction : who is Yasser Arafat? -- Ch. 1. Palestine -- the land and the people -- Ch. 2. Arafat -- the personality, the leadership and the myth -- Ch. 3. Arafat and Israel -- ideological and political perspectives -- Ch. 4. Arafat and Israel -- the politics of terrorism
ISBN
  • 0773461426
  • 9780773461420
LCCN
2005041698
OCLC
  • ocm58536151
  • 58536151
  • SCSB-14413189
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library