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Rashid Khalidi
Journal of Palestine Studies
Issue Number: 193
Editorials
ANYONE FAMILIAR WITH THE ACTUAL HISTORY of Palestine knows of the crucial importance of Britain’s actions during the Mandate; of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948; and of the United States’ role in the elaboration of the Camp David agreements, the Oslo Accor
Issue Number: 192
Editorials
THERE ARE TWO CONSTANTS in the era of Trump. One is the overtly racist prejudice of the U.S. president and his circle, and their cynical and shameless appeal to the bigotry and white supremacist proclivities of a key segment of their electoral base.
Issue Number: 190
Editorials
THE JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES has devoted sustained attention to three critical issues of late: the passage in July 2018 of the so-called Jewish Nation-State Law by the Israeli Knesset, the conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Sem
Issue Number: 189
Editorials
THE RENOWNED AUSTRALIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST Patrick Wolfe has often been quoted as saying that settler colonialism was “a structure, not an event.” In line with this definition, the Nakba—which precipitated the mass dispossessi
Issue Number: 188
Editorials
FOR DECADES, we have heard the mantra endlessly repeated that Israel was and could be both “Jewish and democratic.” Today, the contradictions inherent in this formulation have become ever more apparent.
Issue Number: 187
Essays
U.S. policy on the Middle East, in general, and on Palestine, in particular, witnessed a seismic shift in the closing days of 2017: the U.S.
Issue Number: 187
Editorials
THIS SPECIAL ISSUE of the Journal marks something of a departure from our usual focus on the history, politics, and social science aspects of the study of Palestine as it is largely devoted to a cluster of contrib
Issue Number: 186
Editorials
THESE ARE EXTRAORDINARY TIMES where Palestine is concerned. In December 2017, a U.S.
Issue Number: 185
Essays
This essay argues that what has been going on in Palestine for a century has been mischaracterized.
Issue Number: 185
Editorials
WITH THIS SPECIAL ISSUE, the Journal of Palestine Studies addresses the signal moments discussed in my essay, “Historical Landmarks
Issue Number: 184
Editorials
ONCE AGAIN, the moldering corpse of a U.S.-sponsored peace process is being propelled back onto the world stage.
Issue Number: 183
Editorials
THE PAST QUARTER CENTURY has been marked by the rapidly declining cohesion and effectiveness of the Palestinian national movement, the stren
Issue Number: 182
Editorials
WITH THE ADVENT IN WASHINGTON of an administration with radical new priorities regarding Israel, and a disdain for Palestinian rights, Palestine is hovering on the brink of a seismic shift.
Issue Number: 181
Editorials
THE PREPARATION OF THIS ISSUE coincided with a peculiar U.S. presidential campaign that left foreigners, and many Americans, baffled at its twists and turns.
Issue Number: 180
Editorials
THE DECEPTIVELY NAMED PEACE PROCESS recently got another boost from the French government.
Issue Number: 179
Editorials
PALESTINE IN RECENT MONTHS has witnessed a new kind of continuous, low-level ferment that betokens many Palestinians’ profound disquiet with the status quo: Israel’s ever more entrenched military occupati
Issue Number: 178
Editorials
IN 1988 EDWARD SAID WROTE, “the establishment of Israel as a state in 1948 occurred partly because the Zionists [. .
Issue Number: 177
Editorials
AGREEMENT in the summer of 2015 on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action pertaining to Iran’s nuclear program marked much more than the end of long years of contention over this topic and the culmination o
Issue Number: 148
Editorials
WITH ALL THE ATTENTION PAID to the erosion of civil liberties of U.S.
Issue Number: 149
Editorials
AS THIS ISSUE goes to press, the Bush-Cheney administration is coming to a close.
Issue Number: 150
Editorials
THE 4 NOVEMBER ELECTION of Barack Obama as president of the United States has inspired many to hope for a fresh start at home and abroad.
Issue Number: 151
Editorials
OPERATION CAST LEAD, the latest in a series of brutal Israeli military actions against the Gaza Strip that began even before it was occupied during the 1967 war, differed from previous actions in the particularly savage na
Issue Number: 175
Editorials
ISRAEL’S MARCH 2015 ELECTION took place as this issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies was going to press.
Issue Number: 173
Interviews and debates
In her current capacity as the Head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Information and Culture Department and a member of the PLO Executive Committee, as a former negotiator with the United States over the terms of Palestinian participation in the Madr
Issue Number: 173
Editorials
IN JULY 2014, Israel launched its third and most massive military assault in a period of less than six years on the 1.8 million people of the Gaza Strip.
Issue Number: 172
Editorials
There are numerous misleading ways of framing the conflict in Palestine.
Issue Number: 171
As the four commentaries that follow indicate, in the end, the United States hewed closely to a
Issue Number: 171
Editorials
A MOVING TARGET like the effort of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to mediate between Israel and the Palestinians is difficult for a quarterly journal to deal with.
Issue Number: 168
Essays
This essay, based on the author’s talk presenting a recent book, Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East, examines the dynamics of U.S.
Issue Number: 168
Editorials
THIS ISSUE OF JPS comes out as the PLO and Israel engage in yet another round of negotiations, under the sponsorship and oversight of the United States.
Issue Number: 167
Remembrances
In Remembrance: Elias Shoufani, 1932-2013
Issue Number: 167
Editorials
THIS ISSUE OF the Journal contains several notable features.
Issue Number: 166
Editorials
At first glance the contents of this issue of the Journal appear disparate, ranging as they do over the Israeli settlement project, Tony Blair’s tenure as Quartet Middle East representative, the role of Islamic Jihad, and
Issue Number: 165
Editorials
If American politicians, the mainstream media, and most of the supposed experts in think tanks inside the Beltway are to be believed, Iran represents a looming threat not only to its immediate vicinity (and especially Isra
Issue Number: 82
Articles
Few issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict are as contentious as that of the Palestinian right of return (haq al-'awda).
Issue Number: 119
Essays
More than any other issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Jerusalem has deep resonance for all the parties.
Issue Number: 124
Essays
IT IS STILL TOO EARLY TO SAY whether history will rank the most recent turning point in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with the cataclysmic transformation of Palestine of 1948 or with the dislocations of 1967 and 1982.
Issue Number: 131
Editorials
THIS SPECIAL ISSUE OF the Journal of Palestine Studies is dedicated to Edward W.
Issue Number: 131
Remembrances
Issue Number: 133
Editorials
A COMMON THEME running through most of the articles in this issue is the daily struggle of ordinary Palestinians in the ever shrinking spaces to which they are confined.
Issue Number: 134
Editorials
THIS IS THE FIRST ISSUE of JPS since Yasir Arafat’s death in November 2004 marked the end of an era in Palestinian politics.
Issue Number: 135
Editorials
THIS ISSUE COVERS a broad range of topics, including an assessment of Palestinian prospects after the passing of Yasir Arafat, two contributions touching on aspects of the post-9/11 Middle East, an article about a little k
Issue Number: 136
Editorials
APPEARING AT THE TIME of Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip and a tiny portion of the northern West Bank, this issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies includes two long articles that put the event in some histori
Issue Number: 138
Editorials
GIVEN ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER Ariel Sharon’s powerful impact on Israeli politics, his sudden departure from the scene undoubtedly marks the end of an era.
Issue Number: 137
Editorials
WITH THE COMPLETION of the unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip, Israel’s long-term plans for the West Bank have come into sharp relief.
Issue Number: 139
Editorials
AS A QUARTERLY, the Journal of Palestine Studies naturally cannot respond rapidly to events.
Issue Number: 140
Editorials
INCREASINGLY, the international focus on Palestine has targeted Hamas, particularly after its victory in the January 2006 elections for the Palestine Council.
Issue Number: 141
Editorials
Some issues relating to Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict seem always to be with us. And they seem always to be treated the same way in certain quarters, starting with much of the U.S. media.
Issue Number: 142
Editorials
Chaos reigns in the occupied territories, the prison’s inmates turning on one another while their jailors look on smugly.
Issue Number: 145
Editorials
Forty years ago this November, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 242, aimed at resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict—most immediately, the consequences of the June 1967 war, during which Israel seized territories fr
Issue Number: 146
Editorials
ONCE AGAIN, Gaza dominates the news coming out of Palestine, where the aftershocks of Hamas’s 2007 takeover continue to reverberate.
Issue Number: 147
Editorials
Sixty years ago the Zionist movement launched an all-out military offensive to establish a Jewish state in a country with a two-thirds Arab majority.
Issue Number: 149
Remembrances
AN AURA OF INFINITE SADNESS seemed to attach to Mahmud Darwish over the nearly four decades I knew him.
Issue Number: 152
Editorials
THIS SPECIAL ISSUE of JPS celebrates the work of the renowned anthropologist Rosemary Sayigh, a pioneer in the field of refugee studies and the first scholar to emphasize the signal importance of Palestinian refugees in th
Issue Number: 153
Editorials
This issue of JPS contains two historiographical interventions and several items on political developments in Palestine in the recent past and present, including an exclusive interview with Palestinian prime minister Salam
Issue Number: 153
Remembrances
Shafiq al-Hout was one of the original founders of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964, a member of its Executive Committee in 1966–68 and 1991–93, the long-time PLO representative in Lebanon, a prolific a
Issue Number: 154
Editorials
In this issue, JPS addresses many elements of the Arab-Israeli conflict and
Issue Number: 155
Editorials
Since Israel’s winter 2008–2009 offensive against the Gaza Strip, it has seemed that we are living through a period of après-Gaza.
Issue Number: 156
Editorials
THE ROLE OF U.S. PRESIDENTS in making policy on Palestine is an insufficiently studied topic.
Issue Number: 157
Editorials
THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT has increasingly been defined in terms of the resolution of the question of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967: East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
Issue Number: 158
Editorials
CAN PALESTINE ACHIEVE LIBERATION unilaterally by state-building and economic growth, despite the ongoing constraints of a suffocating occupation?
Issue Number: 159
Editorials
A NUMBER OF THE ESSAYS and other items appearing in the current issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies have direct or indirect bearing on Palestinian stra
Issue Number: 160
Editorials
AS THE GREATEST POWER of the region in control of the whole of Mandatory Palestine (plus areas of Syria), Israel has never been shy about making demands on the Arabs, especially the Palestinians.
Issue Number: 161
Editorials
THIS ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL carries an article, a report, and three essays which share a focus on recent events, as well as two substantial articles on historical topics with continuing relevance, about the Greek Orthodox an
Issue Number: 162
Editorials
AS A WAVE of revolution, unrest and upheaval sweeps slowly across the Arab world, one question has arisen repeatedly.
Issue Number: 163
Editorials
This issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies goes to press between May 15 and June 7 2012, the sixty-fourth anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba and the forty-fifth anniversary of the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza St
Issue Number: 164
Editorials
As this issue went to press, prospective Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney delivered himself of a glaring series of gaffes and insults about the Palestinians in a speech in Jerusalem whose level of pandering le
Issue Number: 141
Reviews
Reading Palestine: Printing and Literacy, 1900–1948, by Ami Ayalon. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004. xii + 160 pages. Notes to p. 184. Sources to p. 200. Index to p. 207. $55.00 cloth; $21.95 paper.