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The Palestinian National MovementPolitics of Contention, 1967-2005\nAuthor(s): Amal Jamal\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253217738, 978-0253217738\nSynopsis\n\""A comprehensive, up-to-date account of the dynamics in the Palestinian political arena.\"" Ann M. Lesch, Villanova University\n\n This innovative study examines the internal dynamics of the Palestinian political elite and their impact on the struggle to establish a Palestinian state. The PLO leadership has sought to prevent the rise of any alternative in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that can challenge its authority to represent Palestinian aspirations for self-determination. Drawing on Palestinian sources and interviews with Palestinian political leaders, Jamal argues that the Fatah leadership has attempted to mobilize new social forceslocal secular-nationalist and Islamist movementswhile undermining their ability to develop independent pow.