Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada: Political Opportunities, Framing Processes and Contentious Politics

by William A. Gamson and Eitan Alimi

As the Palestinian/Israeli conflict continues to be of major importance in the Middle East, this book employs a new agency approach to understanding the conflict, examining the unprecedented challenge mounted by Palestinian insurgents to Israeli military rule in the West Bank and Gaza between 1987 and 1992. In particular the book discusses how the Palestinians learned about their occupier and how knowledge of Israeli political divisions were used,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415385601
• ISBN13: 9780415385602
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"