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The Politics of the Palestinian Authority: From Oslo to al-Aqsa.(Book review)
The Politics of the Palestinian Authority: From Oslo to al-Aqsa, by Nigel Parsons. New York and London, UK: Routledge, 2005. xxx + 319 pages. Appendix to p. 341. Notes to p. 394. Bibl. to p. 411. Index to p. 429. $130.
One regrets Nigel Parsons's masterful, detail-abundant analysis of politics in the Palestinian Authority has not received more attention. The title indicates its dovetailing with Yezid Sayigh's meticulous Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993 (Oxford University Press, 1997); the watershed linking the two is of course the Declaration of Principles of August 20, 1993. The Oslo years that ensued form Parsons's special remit.
In Parsons's reading, the Oslo peace process rose on the one side from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's conclusion as to the unlikelihood of a Syrian deal on the Golan Heights; and on the other, from Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasir 'Arafat's desire to re-establish authoritative leadership by negotiating an internationally acceptable Palestinian project, and gaining a territorial foothold for …
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