Beschreibung:
Shaul Mishal is Associate Professor at Tel Aviv University and visiting professor at Yale University. He is the author of West Bank/East Bank: The Palestinian in Jordan, 1949-1967 and The PLO under Arafat: Between Gun and Olive Branch.
This work provides a selection of underground documents of the two leading bodies of the Intifada: the United National Command and the Islamic Resistance Movement, known as Hamas. Mishal analyses these documents in order to understand the forces that turned the wheels of the Palestinian uprising.