1st Edition

Green March, Black September The Story of the Palestinian Arabs

By John K. Cooley Copyright 1973
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

In March 1968 Palestinian guerrillas and Jordanian troops combined forces to respond to Israeli raids into Jordan, provoking visions of new unity and future military success. Yet by September 1970 mounting friction between the Palestinian guerrillas in Jordan and King Hussein’s regime came to a head with the hijackings at Dawson’s Field and the defeat by Jordan’s forces of the Palestinians. The... Read more

1. King Hussein’s Gamble  2. The People Without a Country  3. The Westernisation of Palestine  4. Palestinian Protest: Poetry and Prose  5. Frontiers in the Diaspora  6. The Guerrillas: Yasir Arafat, al-Fatah and the Emergence of Black September  7. The Guerrillas: George Habash and the Radicals  8. Communist and Other Friends  9. Israelis and Palestinians  10. Towards Peace in Palestine.  Appendix 1. Palestine, Population and Land Ownership  Appendix 2. Where the Palestinians Live

Biography

Cooley, John K.