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black full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. remainder copy in vg+ cond. mint cond. looks new. binding square & tight. covers clean. orange remainder ink mark on top edge, couple of tiny spots on foredge. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, or underlining. first american edition so stated. first printing (nap). 5 endpaper maps. xxvii+407p. 2 additional b&w maps. 36 b&w photo illustrations. dramatis personae. chronology. glossary. notes. bibliography. 3 appendices. index. middle east history. biography. history of israel. ~ On the evening of December 14, 1988, in a crowded conference room in Geneva's Palais des Nations, Yasser Arafat opened a new chapter in the tangled and bloody history of the Palestinian resistance movement he has led for over 20 years. In a political departure that friends and foes alike had long doubted he would ever be able to make, Arafat explicitly recognized Israel, renounced terrorism and set out in search of recognition from the West and a peaceful solution to the Arab~Israeli conflict. What was the story behind Arafat's dramatic pronouncement? How did the PLO chairman rally his divided Organization behind a strategy that involved accepting only a small fraction of the land it was originally fighting for? Behind the Myth is an inside account of one of the most controversial national movements of the modern era: of its origins, its armed struggle against Israel, its gradual shift from violence to diplomacy, and of the many pitfalls along the way. Based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with senior PLO figures, including Arafat, as well as senior American, Arab, Israeli and European officials, it is a comprehensive portrait of the evolution of the Palestinian resistance from its earliest days as an unruly and little~noticed collection of guerrilla factions, through its rise to international prominence, right up to the position following the Gulf War and the historic Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. It is a story of internecine strife and external conflict; of weakness and over~confidence; of mistakes and miscalculations; and of many lost opportunities for peace. But it is above all the story of the dream that Arafat has done more than anyone to sustain in the face of daunting odds: the idea that the Palestinian people should have the right to determine their own future. He has rallied a scattered people in their so far forlorn quest for a homeland; bounced back after countless political setbacks and crushing military defeats; and secured widespread international recognition ~ all without liberating a single inch of territory. Behind the Myth explores the many different roles Arafat has played during his nearly 40 year career as Palestinian activist, from shadowy terrorist to diplomat in search of a settlement with Israel. Is he someone who could now deliver peace and hold his movement together? Or is he the eternal opportunist whose tactical maneuvering will leave him and the PLO mired in the quicksands of the Middle East politics.…