E. V.A.3.a. Palestinian Resistance after 1967 and the First Intifada, 1987-1991

Volume One -> E. Resisting Oppressive, Dictatorial, Military or Authoritarian Rule -> E. V. Middle East and North Africa -> E. V.A. Unarmed Resistance in the Middle East -> E. V.A.3. Palestine -> E. V.A.3.a. Palestinian Resistance after 1967 and the First Intifada, 1987-1991
Alimi, Eitan “Constructing Political Opportunity”: 1987 – The Palestinian Year of Discontent, Vol. 11, issue 1 (February), 2006 , pp. 67-80

Analysing Palestinian print media in 1987 reveals a convergence in calls for action.
Aronson, Geoffrey Creating Facts: Israel, Palestine and the West Bank, London, New York and Washington, Kegan Paul International with Institute of Palestine Studies, 1990 , pp. 334

Covers the growing resistance from 1967 inside the Occupied Territories.
Bregman, Ahron; El-Tahri, Jihan The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1998 , pp. 301

Published in conjunction with a BBC TV series. Chapters 27 and 28 (pp. 187-199) cover the first Intifada, the impact on Israel and the initiatives taken by the PLO.
Dajani, Souad Between national and social liberation: The Palestinian Women’s Movement in the Israeli Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, In Tamar Mayer, Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change, London, Routledge, 1994 , pp. 209 , pp. 33-61

Dajani, Souad Eyes Without Country: Searching for a Palestinian Strategy of Liberation, Philadelphia PA, Temple University Press, 1995 , pp. 238

See also Souad R. Dajani, Resistance in the occupied territories, In Stephen Zunes, Lester R. Kurtz, Sarah Beth Asher, Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) Oxford, Blackwell, 1999 , pp. 52-74 .
Galtung, Johan Nonviolence and Israel/Palestine, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Institute for Peace, 1989 , pp. 79

Hudson, Michael Palestinians: New Directions, Washington DC, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1990 , pp. 268

Includes analysis of the role of the labour movement (chapter 3), of traders (chapter 2) and of women in the Intifada.
Khalidi, Rashid The uprising and the Palestinian question, Vol. 5, issue 3 (summer), 1988 , pp. 497-517

King, Mary A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and a Strategy for Nonviolent Resistance, New York, Nation Books, 2007 , pp. 304

Argues that the First Intifada represented a mass nonviolent mobilization in which women played a significant role, and looks at the global history of nonviolent resistance to suggest that nonviolent strategies are the way to achieve a just peace. See also Mary Elizabeth King, Palestine: Nonviolent Resistance in the Struggle for Statehood, 1920s-2012, In Maciej J. Bartkowski, Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) Boulder CO, Lynne Rienner, 2013 , pp. 161-180 .
Lustick, Ian Writing the Intifada: Collective action in the Occupied Territories, Vol. 45, issue 4 (July), 1993 , pp. 560-594

Review article covering nine recent books, and providing overview of movement and noting the impact on the Arab world (Algeria and Jordan) and wider world.
O'Ballance, Edgar The Palestinian Intifada, Basingstoke and New York, Macmillan/Palgrace and St Martins Press, 1997 , pp. 252

Also covers negotiations, the Oslo Accords and the new Palestinian Authority.
Peretz, Don Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising, Boulder CO, Westview Press, 1990 , pp. 246

Charts the evolution of the movement from spontaneous protests to highly organized resistance.
Rigby, Andrew Living the Intifada, London, Zed Books, 1991 , pp. 233

Account of the ‘unarmed resistance’ of the First Intifada and also an analysis in the context of theories of nonviolent action. Addresses the issue of leverage when the regime has no direct dependence on a population but would rather expel them. See also: Andrew Rigby, The Legacy of the Past: The Problem of Collaborators and the Palestinian Case, Jerusalem, PASSIA – Palestine Academy for Study of International Affairs, 1997 , pp. 94 , which considers the issue of ‘collaboration’ in more detail.
Sharp, Gene The Intifada and nonviolent struggle, Vol. 19, issue 1, 1989 , pp. 3-13

See in same journal: Gene Sharp, Afif Safieh, Gene Sharp: Nonviolent struggle, 1987 , pp. 37-55 .
Vogele, William Learning and nonviolent struggle in the Intifadah, Vol. 17, issue 3 (July), 1992 , pp. 312-340

Argues the need for nonviolent resisters to re-evaluate strategies and tactics in the light of the opponents’ reactions; and (more exceptionally) to redefine their interests and goals.

Websites recommended

A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and a Strategy for Nonviolent Resistance New York Nation Books, 2007

Argues that the First Intifada represented a mass nonviolent mobilization in which women played a significant role, and looks at the global history of nonviolent resistance to suggest that nonviolent strategies are the way to achieve a just peace. See also Mary Elizabeth King, Palestine: Nonviolent Resistance in the Struggle for Statehood, 1920s-2012, In Maciej J. Bartkowski, Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) Boulder CO, Lynne Rienner, 2013 , pp. 161-180 .
Between national and social liberation: The Palestinian Women’s Movement in the Israeli Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip London Routledge, 1994
Creating Facts: Israel, Palestine and the West Bank London, New York and Washington Kegan Paul International with Institute of Palestine Studies, 1990

Covers the growing resistance from 1967 inside the Occupied Territories.
Eyes Without Country: Searching for a Palestinian Strategy of Liberation Philadelphia PA Temple University Press, 1995

See also Souad R. Dajani, Resistance in the occupied territories, In Stephen Zunes, Lester R. Kurtz, Sarah Beth Asher, Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) Oxford, Blackwell, 1999 , pp. 52-74 .
Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Boulder CO Westview Press, 1990

Charts the evolution of the movement from spontaneous protests to highly organized resistance.
Learning and nonviolent struggle in the Intifadah , 1992

Argues the need for nonviolent resisters to re-evaluate strategies and tactics in the light of the opponents’ reactions; and (more exceptionally) to redefine their interests and goals.
Living the Intifada (/rigby1991) London Zed Books, 1991

Account of the ‘unarmed resistance’ of the First Intifada and also an analysis in the context of theories of nonviolent action. Addresses the issue of leverage when the regime has no direct dependence on a population but would rather expel them. See also: Andrew Rigby, The Legacy of the Past: The Problem of Collaborators and the Palestinian Case, Jerusalem, PASSIA – Palestine Academy for Study of International Affairs, 1997 , pp. 94 , which considers the issue of ‘collaboration’ in more detail.
Nonviolence and Israel/Palestine Honolulu University of Hawaii Institute for Peace, 1989
Palestinians: New Directions Washington DC Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1990

Includes analysis of the role of the labour movement (chapter 3), of traders (chapter 2) and of women in the Intifada.
The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs Harmondsworth Penguin Books, 1998

Published in conjunction with a BBC TV series. Chapters 27 and 28 (pp. 187-199) cover the first Intifada, the impact on Israel and the initiatives taken by the PLO.
The Intifada and nonviolent struggle , 1989

See in same journal: Gene Sharp, Afif Safieh, Gene Sharp: Nonviolent struggle, 1987 , pp. 37-55 .
The Palestinian Intifada Basingstoke and New York Macmillan/Palgrace and St Martins Press, 1997

Also covers negotiations, the Oslo Accords and the new Palestinian Authority.
The uprising and the Palestinian question , 1988
Writing the Intifada: Collective action in the Occupied Territories , 1993

Review article covering nine recent books, and providing overview of movement and noting the impact on the Arab world (Algeria and Jordan) and wider world.
“Constructing Political Opportunity”: 1987 – The Palestinian Year of Discontent , 2006

Analysing Palestinian print media in 1987 reveals a convergence in calls for action.

See also:

A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements
Ackerman, Peter; Duvall, Jack, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements), pp. 397-420.
A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements
Chenoweth, Erica; Stephan, Maria, Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements), pp. 119-146.
E. II.2.c. East Timor: Unarmed Campaign for Independence from Indonesia 1991-99
Stephan, Maria, Fighting for Statehood: The role of civilian-based resistance in the East Timorese, Palestinian and Kosovo Albanian self-determination movements, (E. II.2.c. East Timor: Unarmed Campaign for Independence from Indonesia 1991-99), pp. 65-71.