Anatomy of another rebellion

Middle East Report

Volumn 30, Issue 217, 2000, Pages 2-15

  Hammami, Rema ^a   Tamari, Salim ^a,b  

^a BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; POLITICAL CONFLICT; POPULAR PROTEST;

PALESTINE;

EID: 0034486897     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1520164     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Mamdouh Nawfal, Qissat ittifaq Uslu [The Oslo Agreement] (Amman: Ahliyyeh Publishers, 1995). See especially pp. 289-98.
2. Interview with Menahim Klein (with Graham Usher), Publico (Lisbon), September 14, 2000.
3. Akram Haniyyeh, Awraq Camp David [The Camp David Papers] (Amman: al-Ayyam Publishers, 2000), pp. 42-43.
4. Akram Haniyyeh, Awraq Camp David [The Camp David Papers] Ibid., pp. 711-82.
5. Akram Haniyyeh, Awraq Camp David [The Camp David Papers] Ibid., p. 43.
6. Both quotes are taken from Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, "Different Aspects of the Bloody Events," Between the Lines 1/1 (November 2000).
7. For a systematic record of clashes between farmers and settlers during the second uprising, see http://www.alternativenews.org/settlers_violence/.
8. Saleh Abdul Jawad, "The Intifadas Military Lessons," The Palestine Report (October 25, 2000). He warns against militarization of the current intifada.
9. The yellow banners of Hizballah, also ubiquitous at funerals, have been raised by nationalist groups rather than Hamas. Hizballah has no constituency on the ground in Palestine.
10. See in particular Hasan Khader, "Khaybar, Khaybar ya yahud," al-Ayyam (November 6, 2000). He satirizes the radical religious slogans that have gained currency in the street. Khaybar is the name of the seventh-century battle at which Muhammad's army defeated the Jews of Medina.
11. Yossi Dahan, Yediot Aharanot, October 19, 2000.
12. See also Zeev Schiff, Ha'aretz, October 20, 2000. Schiff wrote, "We are experiencing a sharp shift from the sense that we are members of an affluent society to the realization that in times of disturbances, certain roads and highways in Israel, especially in its demographically mixed cities...might become hazardous for vehicular traffic."
13. UNSCO, The Impact on the Palestinian Economy of the Recent Confrontations, Mobility Restrictions and Border Closures (Gaza, October 2000).
14. For an analysis of this process, see Rema Hammami, "NGOs: The Professionalization of Politics," Race and Class 37/2 (1995).
15. The most active NGO umbrella organization, the PNGO Network, has limited its actions so far to calls in the local press for a boycott on accepting money from USAID, and against continued participation of organizations in shared Israeli/Palestinian projects. Additionally, they have set up a number of task forces, one of them to develop strategies for the internal situation. Many of the 120 member organizations are reviewing their activities in an attempt to make them relevant to the current crisis.
16. Al-Quds, November 2, 2000;
17. al-Ayyam, November 2, 2000.
18. Parliamentary deputies were barred from travel from Gaza to the West Bank at Israeli checkpoints, and even within the West Bank, which partly explains the low attendance. On November 6, a well-attended second session adopted a resolution calling for an emergency fund for public-sector employment. Al-Ayyam, November 7, 2000.
19. George Giacaman, "In the Throes of Oslo: Palestinian Society, Civil Society and the Future," in After Oslo: New Realities, Old Problems (London: Pluto Press, 1998).
20. See also Giacaman, "Madakhil li-i'adat al-buna'" [Approaches to Reconstruction] in Ma ba'd al-azma: al-taghayyurat al-bunyawiyya fi al-hayat al-siyasiyya al-filastiniyya [After the Crisis: Structural Transformations in Palestinian Political Life] (Ramallah: Muwatin, 1998).
21. Jamil Hilal, al-Nizam al-siyasi al-filastini ba'd Uslu [The Palestinian Political System After Oslo] (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1998).
22. Rema Hammami and Penny Johnson, "Equality with a Difference: Gender and Citizenship in Transitional Palestine," Social Politics 6/3 (Fall 1999).