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Finkelstein documents lived experiences in Palestine, beginning with a 1988 trip as part of an American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee human rights delegation. Friendship-forming encounters with people from Beit Sahour and a refugee camp ground the narrative in everyday realities. The book organizes reflections around themes such as revisiting truths from Palestine, ordinary and extraordinary moral responses, and critiques of double standards in applying international law, extending to why Palestinians reacted to Scud attacks.","The  \nRISE and FALL 0t PALESTINE  \nThe  \nRISE and FALL 0I PALESTINE  \nA Personal Account of the Intifada Years  \nNORMAN G . FINKEL STEIN  \nUniversity of Minnesota Press  \nMinneapolis London  \nCopyright 1996 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.  \nPublished by the University of Minnesota Press  \n111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290, Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nFinkelstein, Norman G.  \nThe rise and fall of Palestine : a personal account of the  \nIntifada years I Norman G. Finkelstein.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references.  \nISBN 0-8166-2858-0  \nISBN 0-8166-2859-9 (pbk.)  \nI. Intifada, 1987- 2. Finkelstein, Norman G.-Joumeys-West  \nBank. 3. Jewish-Arab relations-1973- I. Title. DS119.75.F55 1996  \n956.9405' .4-\u003Clc20  \nThe University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer.  \n96-17955  \nTo Samira and Moussa  \nAs in the last days of Pompeii, there was disintegration; restraints and prohibitions disappeared....I knew about people who were corrupt and I didn't always condemn them because the accepted norm was: \"Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.\" ... There were, however, also instances of moral dignity. People sought a way tous, wanted to help us. Citizens without any political affiliation ... There were a lot of instances of dignified behavior, an expression of solidarity of simple people who weren't members of a movement....[W]hen we were in danger, we always found people to hide us.... There was a class of people in the ghetto who lived the good life all the time. These were smugglers and the economic collaborators, not the collaborators, the bastards, the Gestapo agents. These smugglers and economic opportunists were another level of collaborator. Perhaps we could say-with grief and bitterness-this group also included the leadership of the political parties: they had plenty of money, which they got from various sources. ...At any rate, they didn't go hungry.  \nYitzhak Zuckerman, A Surplus of Memory: Chronicles of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising  \nContents  \nKey Abbreviations and Foreign Terms xi  \nAuthor's Note xii  \nAcknowledgments xiii Chronology xiv  \nDramatis Personae xv  \nThe Truth from Palestine, Revisited   \nThe Ordinary, the Awful, and the Sublime 18  \nA Double Standard in the Application of International Law 44  \nWhy Palestinians Cheered the Scud Missiles 69  \nEpilogue The End of Palestine? 85  \nNotes 123  \nIndex 153  \nKey Abbreviations and Foreign Terms  \nADC  \nCRM  \nGSS  \nIDF  \njaysh  \nMEW  \nPFLP  \nPLO  \nPNC  \nshebab  \nUNC  \nAmerican-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee  \nCitizen's Rights Movement General Security Services Israel Defense Forces Israeli army  \nMiddle East Watch  \nPopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Palestine Liberation Organization  \nPalestine National Council  \nyoung Palestinian militants Unified National Command  \nAuthor's Note  \nI first traveled to Palestine in August 1988 as part of an American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee (ADC) human rights delegation. Two chance encounters-with Samira Mikhail of Beit Sahour and Moussa Abu Hashhash of Fawwar refugee camp-developed into enduring friendships as I returned to Palestine in successive ye","cbCaitprj1ufcenz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitprj1ufcenz","pdf",1047831,1,14,"English","en",105,"# Key Abbreviations and Foreign Terms\n# Author's Note\n# Acknowledgments\n# Chronology\n# Dramatis Personae\n# The Truth from Palestine, Revisited\n## The Ordinary, the Awful, and the Sublime\n## A Double Standard in the Application of International Law\n## Why Palestinians Cheered the Scud Missiles\n## Epilogue The End of Palestine?\n# Notes\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the book’s foundation for describing the Intifada years?\",\"answer\":\"The narrative is anchored in the author’s travels and sustained relationships formed after his 1988 trip to Palestine as part of a human rights delegation.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book approach moral and social behavior during the 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