dc.contributor.author |
Jamjoum, Hazem Mohammad. |
dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-02T09:24:45Z |
dc.date.available |
2013-10-02T09:24:45Z |
dc.date.issued |
2012 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10938/9459 |
dc.description |
Thesis (M.A.)--American University of Beirut, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, 2012. |
dc.description |
Advisor : Dr. Mayssun Succarie, Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies--Members of Committee : Dr. Tarif A. Khalidi, Sheikh Zayid Bin Sultan Professor of Islamic and Arab Studies, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies ; Dr. Alexis Wick, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Archaeology ; Dr. Rosemary Sayigh, Visiting Professor, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. |
dc.description |
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-130) |
dc.description.abstract |
After the 1967 Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, Israeli military commander Moshe Dayan adopted an approach to Palestinian society that purportedly kept the occupation “invisible,” allowing for the continuation of the preexisting Jordanian system of governing through a network of urban and rural West Bank notables. After Menachem Begin’s Likud party, ideological opposed to any territorial compromise, won the 1977 Israeli elections and signed the Camp David Agreements with Egypt, Israeli strategy over the West Bank changed to one in which the imposition of a Palestinian Native Authority became central. The first attempt to impose such a Native Authority was called the Village Leagues, a subject about which very little has been written. This thesis attempts to fill this gap in the literature through research in the newspapers of the period to tell the story of the Village Leagues and the Palestinian uprising that defeated them. The thesis also includes an examination of the shift in Israeli colonial strategies and objectives engendered by the coming to power of Likud. Central to the form that the Palestinian Native Authority took in 1981-1982 (the Village Leagues) was Israeli knowledge production about Palestinian society that was carried out by academic orientalists who also served as military advisers and strategists. The final chapter of the thesis examines Israeli orientalism and how it contributed to the rise and fall of the Village Leagues as an idea and as a failed colonial strategy. |
dc.format.extent |
viii, 130 leaves ; 30 cm. |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Theses, Dissertations, and Projects |
dc.subject.classification |
T:005708 AUBNO |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Likud (Political party : Israel) |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Palestinian Arabs -- West Bank. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Intifada, 1987-. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Arab-Israeli conflict -- History. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
West Bank -- History -- 20th century. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Israel -- Politics and government -- 20th century. |
dc.subject.lcsh |
Palestinian National Authority. |
dc.title |
The Village Leagues : Israel’s native authority and the 1981-1982 Intifada |
dc.type |
Thesis |
dc.contributor.department |
American University of Beirut. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. |