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The narrative frames events through themes such as truth revisited, the ordinary alongside the awful and the sublime, and scrutiny of international law’s uneven application. It also addresses Palestinian reactions to military events and culminates in an epilogue questioning whether Palestine’s end has arrived, supported by notes and reference materials.","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. 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