Volume 28, Number 1 · February 5, 1981
Friends and Enemies
By Bernard Avishai
The Palestinians
by Jonathan Dimbleby, photographs by Donald McCullin
Quartet Books, 256 pp., $25.00
Report and Recommendations of an Amnesty International Mission to the Government of the State of Israel, 3-7 June 1979
Amnesty International, 71 pp., $4.95
Arab Politics in Palestine 1917-1939: The Frustration of a National Movement
by Ann Mosely Lesch
Cornell University Press, 245 pp., $19.50
By, 'the Palestinians' the British television journalist Jonathan Dimbleby means the hundreds of thousands of people in South Lebanon—what Israelis call 'Fatahland'—who are the children of the refugees who fled Palestine in 1948. They are the main body of the national movement whose vanguard is the PLO. Having spent their lives in harsh camps, or working in Gulf states which denied them citizenship, the Palestinians in Lebanon are now men and women who set themselves apart from the rest of the Arab nation as people who have witnessed their own catastrophe. It is Dimbleby's unreserved sympathy for them that makes his book worth reading. Through interviews and photographs, he presents their history as they see it.
Review, 4250 words
To read the full text of this piece, please choose one of the following options:
|
If you are already a subscriber to the Review's electronic edition, please sign in: |
To subscribe to the electronic edition, please press the button below. |
To purchase access to this article for $3, please press the button below. |