Analyzing Palestinian print sources and data gathered through interviews with Palestinian activists and Israeli journalists, Alimi (political science, the Hebrew U. and the U. of Haifa, Israel) concludes that the timing of the first intifada (1987-92), which was an unprecedented shift in prolonged commitment to resistance to Israeli occupation compared to earlier years, was intimately connected to Palestinian perceptions of system-wide Israeli political divisions. This analysis suggests that a pre-existing willingness and readiness to resist, structural in terms of Israeli oppression and agency-oriented in terms of the Palestinian development of organizations and ideologies, combined with an opportunity dimension connected to Palestinian perceptions of Israeli politics in order to trigger the inception of the intifada. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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