The Trials of Rasmea Odeh: How a Palestinian Guerrilla Gained and Lost U.S. Citizenship

by Steven Lubet

Book Overview

On February 21, 1969, a bomb exploded in the largest supermarket in Jerusalem. The blast killed two and injured many more, triggering an intense search for the terrorists behind the plot. Israeli security forces quickly apprehended, tortured, tried, and eventually convicted twenty-one-year-old Palestinian Rasmea Odeh for murder. Twenty-five years later, however, Odeh was not serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison but instead starting a new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 194269525X
• ISBN13: 9781942695257
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: George Mason University
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 9.3"