A comprehensive, up-to-date account of the dynamics in the Palestinian political arena." ―Ann M. Lesch, Villanova UniversityThis 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 forces―local secular-nationalist and Islamist movements―while undermining their ability to develop independent power structures. This policy has served to radicalize the younger local elites, contributing to the tensions that precipitated the first and second intifadas. Israel’s policies have undermined the legitimacy of the national elite, while enhancing the Islamist opposition’s ideological legitimacy. In this way, internal elite disunity and growing political differentiation have worked against development of a common Palestinian strategy of state-building.

The Palestinian National Movement: Politics of Contention, 1967-2005 (Middle East Studies)

History

Jamal, Amal

Middle East

Indiana University Press

In this pathbreaking study, Amal Jamal analyzes the consumption of media by Arab citizens of Israel as a type of communicative behavior and a form of political action. Drawing on extensive public opinion survey data, he describes perceptions and use of media ranging from Arabic Israeli newspapers to satellite television broadcasts from throughout the Middle East. By participating in this semi-autonomous Arab public sphere, the average Arab citizen can connect with a wider Arab world beyond the boundaries of the Israeli state. Jamal shows how media aid the community’s ability to resist the state's domination, protect its Palestinian national identity, and promote its civic status.

The Arab Public Sphere in Israel: Media Space and Cultural Resistance (Middle East Studies)

"A comprehensive, up-to-date account of the dynamics in the Palestinian political arena." —Ann M. Lesch, Villanova UniversityThis 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 forces—local secular-nationalist and Islamist movements—while undermining their ability to develop independent power structures. This policy has served to radicalize the younger local elites, contributing to the tensions that precipitated the first and second intifadas. Israel’s policies have undermined the legitimacy of the national elite, while enhancing the Islamist opposition’s ideological legitimacy. In this way, internal elite disunity and growing political differentiation have worked against development of a common Palestinian strategy of state-building.

The Palestinian National Movement: Politics of Contention, 1967-2005 (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies)

In this pathbreaking study, Amal Jamal analyzes the consumption of media by Arab citizens of Israel as a type of communicative behavior and a form of political action. Drawing on extensive public opinion survey data, he describes perceptions and use of media ranging from Arabic Israeli newspapers to satellite television broadcasts from throughout the Middle East. By participating in this semi-autonomous Arab public sphere, the average Arab citizen can connect with a wider Arab world beyond the boundaries of the Israeli state. Jamal shows how media aid the community’s ability to resist the state's domination, protect its Palestinian national identity, and promote its civic status.

National minorities and their behaviour have become a central topic in comparative politics in the last few decades. Using the relationship between the state of Israel and the Arab national minority as a case study, this book provides a thorough examination of minority nationalism and state-minority relations in Israel.  Placing the case of the Arab national minority in Israel within a comparative framework, the author analyses major debates taking place in the field of collective action, social movements, civil society and indigenous rights. He demonstrates the impact of the state regime on the political behaviours of the minorities, and sheds light on the similarities and differences between various types of minority nationalisms and the nature of the relationship such minorities could have with their states. Drawing empirical and theoretical conclusions that contribute to studies of Israeli politics, political minorities, indigenous populations and conflict issues, this book will be a valuable reference for students and those in policy working on issues around Israeli politics, Palestinian politics and the broader Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Arab Minority Nationalism in Israel: The Politics of Indigeneity (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)

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Routledge

National minorities and their behaviour have become a central topic in comparative politics in the last few decades. Using the relationship between the state of Israel and the Arab national minority as a case study, this book provides a thorough examination of minority nationalism and state-minority relations in Israel. Placing the case of the Arab national minority in Israel within a comparative framework, the author analyses major debates taking place in the field of collective action, social movements, civil society and indigenous rights. He demonstrates the impact of the state regime on the political behaviours of the minorities, and sheds light on the similarities and differences between various types of minority nationalisms and the nature of the relationship such minorities could have with their states. Drawing empirical and theoretical conclusions that contribute to studies of Israeli politics, political minorities, indigenous populations and conflict issues, this book will be a valuable reference for students and those in policy working on issues around Israeli politics, Palestinian politics and the broader Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Arab Minority Nationalism in Israel (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)

Reconstructing the Civic: Palestinian Civil Activism in Israel

State Univ of New York Pr

Product Description Explores the civic activism of the Palestinian minority in Israel for a better understanding of the relationship between civic activism and democratization in ethnic states.Reconstructing the Civic examines the civic activism of the homeland Palestinian minority in Israel. Employing a multi-methodological and empirically rich approach, Amal Jamal blends historical description with interviews of Palestinian elites drawn from a diverse range of civil society groups such as NGOs, youth movements, and religious organizations. He also critiques the failure of Western/liberal scholarship to account for the experience of minority civil society organizations in illiberal social and political contexts, largely because this literature assumes there is an inherent relationship between civil society and democracy. Jamal places an important spotlight on the complex interplay between liberal and illiberal trends in the emergence, organization, and transformation of Palestinian civil society in Israel as well as the need to introduce an alternative ethical model that aims to reconstruct ethnic states in universal civic terms. Review “This book is the first of its kind and a valuable contribution to both the study of the Palestinians in Israel and for understanding the construction of civil society. Jamal provides a very thorough and comprehensive look into a major socio-political occurrence. Most existing studies of civil society worldwide do not deal with cases of subjugated ethno-national groups in conflict, and there is a particular theoretical interest in this case.” ― Tamir Sorek, author of Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs About the Author Amal Jamal is Associate Professor of Political Science and Political Communication at Tel Aviv University and the author of Arab Minority Nationalism in Israel: The Politics of Indigeneity.

Media Politics and Democracy in Palestine: Political Culture, Pluralism and the Palestinian Authority

This book examines the Palestinian process of state formation and the prospects for democracy in a future Palestinian state in terms of the role media institutions play in the conflicting aims of civil organizations and social movements, and the political regime. While the dominant national elite attempt to define the structure of the regime, liberal as well as Islamic social forces promote policies of protest and resistance, through media tools, against the authoritarian policies of the Palestinian Authority. The media is viewed as a public sphere in which these forces compete. Media institutions play an important role in setting the parameters of communication in processes of state building: promoting public debate and forming public spheres influence the modes of state-civil society relations. By combining concepts of political communication with social movement theory, the author examines the extent to which public opinion plays a role in determining the character of the political regime - the rising tension between the Palestinian Authority's attempts to deepen its control over society and to centralize its power, and the reaction to this development by opposition groups. The Islamic movement, the women's movement and the liberal-democratic intellectual elite are assessed through their media institutions and communication policies, to reveal the character of the emerging Palestinian public sphere. The concept of "media regime" is introduced as an operational model, which enables this study of Palestinian politics to contribute to political communication theory in particular, and comparative politics in general.

Liverpool University Press

In opposition to the PA, liberal as well as Islamic social forces promote policies of protest and resistance, through media tools, against the authoritarian policies of the PA. The media is viewed as a public sphere in which these forces compete. Media institutions play an important role in setting the parameters of communication in processes of state building: promoting public debate and forming public spheres influence the modes of statecivil society relations. Combining concepts of political communication with social movement theory, the author examines the extent to which public opinion plays a role in determining the character of the political regime. The rising tension between the Palestinian Authoritys attempts to deepen its control over society and the reaction to this development by opposition groups informs the analysis of each civil institution: the role of NGOs, the Islamic movement, the womens movement and Palestinian feminism, and the liberal-democratic intellectual elite, are all assessed through their media institutions and communication policies, to reveal the character of the emerging Palestinian public sphere.

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The Palestinian National Movement: Politics of Contention, 1967-2005 (Middle East Studies)

The Arab Public Sphere in Israel: Media Space and Cultural Resistance (Middle East Studies)

The Palestinian National Movement: Politics of Contention, 1967-2005 (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies)

The Arab Public Sphere in Israel: Media Space and Cultural Resistance (Middle East Studies)

Arab Minority Nationalism in Israel: The Politics of Indigeneity (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)

Arab Minority Nationalism in Israel (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)

Reconstructing the Civic: Palestinian Civil Activism in Israel

Reconstructing the Civic: Palestinian Civil Activism in Israel

Media Politics and Democracy in Palestine: Political Culture, Pluralism and the Palestinian Authority

Media Politics and Democracy in Palestine: Political Culture, Pluralism and the Palestinian Authority