Palestine And The Palestinians

395 Pages·1997·6.383 MB·English

by  Samih K. Farsoun, Christina E. Zacharia, Christina Hawatmeh

Palestine
and the
Palestinians
Samih K. Farsoun
with
Christina E. Zacharia
Westview Press
A Member of the Perseus Books Group

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Farsoun, Samih K.
Palestine and the Palestinians / Samih K. Farsoun with Christina
£. Zacharia.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8133-0340-0
1. Palestinian Arabs—Economic conditions. 2. Palestinian Arabs—
Social conditions. 3. Palestinian Arabs—Politics and government.
4. Israel-Arab conflicts. I. Zacharia, Christina E. U. Title.
DS119.7.F336 1997
956.9405'4—dc21 97-21954
CIP
The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National
Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

For my brother; David Farsoun,
and my colleague and friend Naseer Aruri
—Samih Farsoun
For my family
—Christina Zacharia

Contents
List of Tables and Illustrations ix
List of Appendixes xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
List of Acronyms xvii
1 The Question of Palestine and the Palestinians 1
2 Before al-Nakbah: The Modern Social History of Palestine 21
3 The Road to al-Nakbah: The Palestine Mandate, 1917-1948 66
4 After al-Nakbah: The Palestinian Diaspora, 1948-1993 123
5 The Rise and Fall of the Palestinian National Liberation
Movement, 1948-1993 171
6 Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation: The Intifada 213
7 The PLO-Israel Accords and the Future of Palestine
and the Palestinians 253
8 Epilogue: Whither Palestine and the Palestinians? 297
Appendixes 319
Glossary 343
Selected Bibliography 348
About the Book and Authors 362
Index 363
vii

Tables and Illustrations
Tables
2.1 Large Landholdings in Palestine by District,
Early Twentieth Century 40
2.2 Average Yearly Exports of the Main Goods from Jaffa,
Haifa, and ‘Akka, 1872-1882 41
2.3 Total Value of Exports from Jaffa, 1885-1905 43
2.4 Workers in Major Industries, Palestine, Circa 1912 53
2.5 Major Industries in Palestine, Circa 1918 54
3.1 Population Distribution in Palestine, 1880-1947 78
3.2 Estimated Jewish Land Purchases in Palestine, 1882-1947 79
3.3 Sources of Food for Jewish Community in Palestine,
1939 and 1944 84
3.4 Estimates of Palestine’s National Income and
Its Sectoral Composition 92
3.5 Estimated Number Engaged in Each Branch of
Production and Average Output per Head in the
Arab Community, 1944 96
4.1 Estimates of Palestinian Refugees and Their Destinations,
1948-1949 125
4.2 Summary of the Flow of Palestinian Dispersal Since 1948,
with a Projection of the Likely Distribution by 2000 128
4.3 Reasons for Leaving Home, as Reported by the Refugees,
1967 War 135
4.4 Global Distribution of Estimated and Projected Numbers
of the Palestinian People 141
4.5 UNRWA General Information Concerning Refugees 144
4.6 Occupational Distribution of Palestinian Males in
Selected Countries and Regions 145
6.1 Distribution of Palestinians in the Labor Force, 1986 230
6.2 Comparison of Selected Indicators, Occupied Territories,
Middle East and North Africa, and Jordan, 1991 231
6.3 Human Rights Violations, December 1987 to June 1994 236
ix
X Tables and Illustrations
Figures
5.1 PLO Structure 188
Maps
3.1 The Palestine Mandate 73
3.2 Distribution of Population by Subdistrict, with Percentages
of Jews and Palestinians, 1946 77
3.3 Zionist and Palestinian Landownership in Percentages
by Subdistrict, 1945 81
3.4 United Nations Partition Plan of Palestine 112
3.5 Areas of Palestine Conquered by Zionist-Israeli Forces
Beyond the Partition Plan, 1948-1949 115
4.1 Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 1949 Armistice
Frontiers 124
4.2 Magnitude, Distribution, and Destination of Palestinian
Refugees, 1948 137
7.1 The Gaza Strip, After the Cairo Accords 264
7.2 Jericho, West Bank, After the Cairo Accords 265
7.3 The West Bank, After the Oslo II Accords 269