Israel-Palestine: A Guerrilla Conflict in International Politics

Contributions in Political Science #161

by Eliezer Ben-Rafael

This analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict offers a wide-ranging theoretical framework to approach various aspects of terrorism, guerilla and antiguerilla warfare, the peace process, and other complex issues. The distinction between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and that of the Jewish State and its neighbors has been neglected in past writings. The author suggests that this distinction is the key to understanding not only the extent of international support obtained by the PLO, but the setbacks and the ability to withstand them, that are characteristic of Israel's position. Shofar

230 pages, Hardcover

First published January 13, 1987

About the author

Eliezer Ben-Rafael (Hebrew: אליעזר בן-רפאל; born 1938 in Belgium) is an Israeli sociologist. He is Weinberg Professor of Sociology, emeritus, at Tel Aviv University.