Volume 37, Number 16 · October 25, 1990
The Impasse Over Israel
By Arthur Hertzberg
Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice
by John Quigley
Duke University Press, 337 pp., $18.95 (paper)
Israel, Palestinians and the Intifada: Creating Facts on the West Bank
by Geoffrey Aronson
Kegan Paul International/Institute for Palestinian Studies, 372 pp., $29.95
Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder
by Janet Wallach, by John Wallach
Lyle Stuart, 384 pp., $19.95
Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond
by David McDowall
University of California Press, 322 pp., $24.95
The False Prophet: Rabbi Meir Kahane—From FBI Informant to Knesset Member
by Robert I. Friedman
Lawrence Hill, 282 pp., $19.95
Is the Zionist state legitimate? Is the 'Palestinian state' legitimate? Most Arabs deny the legitimacy of Israel. The Arab argument grew more passionate earlier this year as it became clear that the PLO's expressed willingness to negotiate with Israel was not leading to a Palestinian state, and many Palestinians concluded that Israel remained implacably opposed to Palestinian nationalism. When I spent some time this summer on the West Bank, even before Saddam Hussein became the hero of the Palestinians there, the young people with whom I talked were no longer listening to their parents, or even to the supposed leaders of the intifada.
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