Palestinian strategy

[Bradford DeLong]

>In the excellent book of
>interviews that David Barsamian did with him before he died (_Eqbal Ahmad:
>Confronting Empire_. NB: when searching, author=Barsamian), Ahmad
>describes how all three told Arafat to his face several times,
>individually and as a group, insistently and repeatedly, starting in 1968
>and continuing for the next 25 years, that it was his historic mission to
>become a Gandhi, and that any other strategy would be self-defeating.
>
>That such people believe it doesn't by itself make it a true position, of
>course.  But it does by itself make it a respectable one...

Thanks. Clearly something to go to the top of the pile...

Brad DeLong