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By Norman G. Finkelstein
Norman G. Finkelstein's gripping account of the Intifada makes a speciality of a Christian Palestinian kinfolk and a relations from the Fawwar refugee camp open air Hebron. The account strains the Intifada from its heroic inception to its sour defeat.
Norman G. Finkelstein, son of a holocaust survivor, is a fierce and debatable critic of Israeli coverage, particularly towards Palestinians. He has had a stressful contention together with his pro-Israel counterpart, Alan Dershowitz. In 2007 DePaul college denied his tenure, a choice for which Dershowitz lobbied. For his perspectives and suspected connections to anti-Zionist teams, Israel has denied Finkelstein access and banned him from the rustic for a decade.
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Recognizing how degrading the occupation was and how morally compromised they were for having tolerated it so long, parents could not and would not deny their chil dren's right to struggle for a better life. Yet they also agonized over their children's safety. W hy couldn't Arabs take death in stride like Westerners? Samira wondered aloud one night. W hy did death so traumatize them? I couldn't help but smile. Didn't she know that it was Arabs, not Westerners, who were supposed to be inured to death?
From the start the inti[ada had tended to develop unevenly. Early on, for instance, Bethlehem had looked to Beit Sahour for inspiration, but the roles had reversed as more and more Bethlehem became the site of massive violent confrontations with the army. The eye of the intifada storm had moved north, with the cities of Tulkarm, Jenin, and Nablus putting up the stiffest "active" resistance (along with Gaza, of course). More importantly, in its original form, the intifada couldn't have long en dured.
In the first months of the intifada, huge demonstrations- in which, as Moussa nostalgically recalled, mothers joined their children at makeshift barricades, singing patriotic songs and stoning soldiers - had been, symbol ically at least, the heart of the uprising. Confrontations in Beit Sahour now mainly took the form of ambushes as the shebab stoned soldiers and settlers a dozen or so times each day from rooftops. The lack of mass public protests in Beit Sahour did not in itself signal a cri sis in the inti[ada.