Review: Third World: The Intifada
| Author | Laurie Brand |
| Published date | 01 June 1992 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209204700214 |
| Date | 01 June 1992 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
450
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
cerned
in
this
book.
But
at
a
more
basic
level
there
is
agreement
that,
in
what
soon
became
a
civil
war situation, the
MNF
lost its
peacekeep-
ing
credentials
by
getting
too
close
to
the Lebanese government.
Most
dramatically,
this
was
illustrated
by
it
becoming
involved
in
the
fight-
ing
on,
in effect,
the
government's
side.
It
was
no
longer
engaged
in
what
has come
to
be
called peacekeeping, for
the
core
values
of
that
activity
-
impartial
and
non-threatening
behaviour
-
had
been
aban-
doned.
In
this
situation,
the
only possibilities
for
the
MNF
were
to
get
even
more
deeply
involved
or
to
withdraw.
Recently
there
has
been
something
of
an
upsurge
in
United
Nations peacekeeping,
and
it
is
widely
anticipated
not
just
that
this
will
continue
but
that
the
United
Nations
is
increasingly
likely
to
find
itself
so
employed
in
internal
situations.
It
is
all
the
more
important,
therefore,
that
the
lessons
furnished
by
the
MNF
should be
widely
noted.
Alan
James/Keele
University
THIRD
WORLD
THE
INTIFADA
Its
impact
on
Israel,
the
Arab
world,
and
the
superpowers
Edited
by
Robert
0.
Freedman
Gainesville:
Florida
International
University
Press,
1991,
xxii,
417pp,
US$
4 9.9 5
cloth,
US$1
9.95
paper
On
8
December
1987
in
the
occupied
Gaza
Strip,
the
collision
of
an
Israeli
truck
with
two
vans
of
Palestinian
workers
left
four Palestinians
dead
and
triggered
the
outbreak
of
unrest
which
not
only
quickly
spread
throughout
Gaza
and
the
West
Bank
but
also
gradually
devel-
oped
into
a
more
institutionalized
form
of
political
revolt
against
the
then
twenty-year-long
Israeli
occupation.
The
uprising, or
intifada
as
the
revolt
is
known
in
Arabic,
is
now
in
its
fifth
year
and
has
been
most
notably
characterized
by
stone-throwing
youths,
a
national command
comprising representatives of
the
major
factions
within the Palestine
Liberation
Organization, decentralized institutionalization
in
political,
To continue reading
Request your trial