تحت الحصار: صناعة القرار في منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية خلال حرب 1982

by Rashid Khalidi, رشيد الخالدي

يقدم هذا الكتاب رواية تاريخية لشاهد عيان عن الاجتياح الإسرائيلي للبنان، وللمفاوضات في شأن انسحاب قوات منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية وقياداتها من بيروت خلال صيف سنة 1982. يستخدم المؤلف مصادر من الأرشيف الفلسطيني، ومقابلات مع قيادات فلسطينية وعربية، ومع دبلوماسيين أجانب.

Genres: History, Middle East, Politics, Lebanon, Nonfiction, War, 20th Century

296 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 1985

About the author

Rashid Ismail Khalidi (Arabic: رشيد إسماعيل خالدي; born 18 November 1948) is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He served as editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies from 2002 until 2020, when he became co-editor with Sherene Seikaly.

He has authored a number of books, including The Hundred Years' War on Palestine and Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness; has served as president of the Middle East Studies Association; and has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, Georgetown University, and the University of Chicago.

For his work on the Middle East, Professor Khalidi has received fellowships and grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the American Research Center in Egypt, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others.

In October 2010, Khalidi delivered the annual Edward Said memorial lecture at the Palestine Center in Washington. He is the Edward Said Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Colombia University. On October 8, 2024, Khalidi retired from Columbia University citing the university's crackdown on pro-Palestinian student protests, which he had vocally supported, and the transformation of the university into a "hedge fund-cum-real estate operation, with a minor sideline in education" as reasons for his retirement.

Reviews

[El · Rating 4 out of 5]

يمكن إضافة عنوان فرعي للكتاب "قصة خيانة"، كيف تعرضت الثورة الفلسطينية للتصفية في بيروت على أيدي النظام العربي كله بالتواطؤ مع الصهاينة والإمبرياليين، كما يفتح الكتاب مجالاً لمزيد من المرارة حول الدور الذي لعبته سوريا الأسد في تقويض النضال الفلسطيني بشراكة مع السعودية، وفي امتداد للدور الخياني الذي لعبه الأسد في حرب السنتين حين فك المشنقة عن عنق اليمين اللبناني!

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

The themes of this book will be familiar to anyone knowledgable of the history of the Palestinian people: the PLO was in an impossible situation, left to the mercy of a relentless and pitiless aggressor that sees Palestinian existence and identity as an existential threat. With their enemies enabled by the Americans, and the Arab world having essentially abandoned them, it is a miracle that they managed to offer any meaningful resistance to one of the world’s most powerful armies. But in the end, there was no choice but to acquiesce and leave Beirut. And despite their best efforts in obtaining guarantees of the safety and security of the defenceless civilians they left behind, once the world’s attention had turned elsewhere, nothing was going to stop the genocidal Phalangistes and their Israeli patrons. Even without the Sabra and Shatila massacres, Israel’s war on Lebanon would already have been cruel and barbaric. The single worst atrocity of the entire Arab Israeli conflict is a testament of the depths of barbarism that Palestinians face. Unfortunately, while it may have resulted in a temporary shift in public opinion, even in the United States, in the end that made no real difference and had no lasting impact. Whether the genocide in Gaza will ultimately leave a more enduring imprint on Western hearts and minds remains to be seen.