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Once Upon a Country

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by Sari Nusseibeh


  Ereikat, Saeb; described; Madrid Conference and peace negotiations

  Eshkol, Levi

  Ethics (Aristotle)

  Eton

  European Union

  Faisal al-Hussein (Arabian sheikh)

  Fanon, Frantz

  al-Farabi, Abu Nasr

  el-Faraʾneh, Hamadeh

  Farouk, King

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  Fatah; Al-Quds University students; as Arab acronym; Battle of Karameh; Central Committee; clashes between Hamas and; finances and corruption; the first intifada and, see intifada, first; HASHD and; Likud compared to; “militant” and “diplomatic” arms of; Sari Nusseibeh’s recruitment to; PLO compared with; suicide bombings and; Tanzim; transformation to a political party from guerrilla movement; youth movement, see Shabibah (Fatah youth movement); see also names of leaders

  Fatah Higher Committee

  Federation of the Union Employees in Palestinian Universities and Institutes of Higher Learning; Military Order 854 and

  fellahin

  Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (Stern Gang)

  Fisher, Lady

  Fisk, Robert

  Ford Foundation

  Fourteen Points (first intifada)

  France

  freedom, human; Nusseibeh’s Freedom course

  Free Palestine

  free will; see also will, individual

  Frege, Gottlob

  Freij, Elias

  Gandhi, Mahatma

  Gaza; economy of; first intifada and, see intifada, first; military governor of; Palestinian Authority and, see Palestinian Authority (PA); Sharon’s “disengagement” from; Six-Day War and; Yassin’s activities in, see Yassin, Sheikh Ahmad

  Gaza-Jericho Accord of 1994

  Genet, Jean

  Geneva Accord

  Geneva Agreement

  Geneva Conventions

  Gesher

  Ghanim, Sheikh

  al-Ghazali

  Ghazzawi, Izzat; the first intifada and

  Ghisi, Gianni

  Gilgamesh

  Ginsberg, Allen

  Glock, Dr. Albert

  Glubb, John Bagot (Glubb Pasha)

  Goldsmith’s Souk (Suq al-Khawajat)

  Goldstein, Baruch

  Goldstein, Shalom

  Gorbachev, Mikhail

  Gordon, General Charles

  Gramm, Phil

  grassroots approach to the two-state solution

  Greek Orthodox Church, archbishop of

  Grillparzer, Franz

  Guardian, The

  Gulf War, 1991

  Gush Emunim settler movement

  Haʾaretz

  Hadassah Hospital

  Haganah

  Haifa

  al-Haleem, Abed

  Hamad, Abd el-Rahman

  Hamami, Jamil

  Hamas; Al-Quds University students and; charter of 1988; clashes between Fatah and; formation of; Izzeddin al-Qassam Brigade; opposition to peace talks; Oslo Agreement and; pacifist origins of; Parliamentary elections, victory in; social services; terrorism and

  Hammer, Joshua

  Hanan (Sari Nusseibeh’s secretary)

  Hanegbi, Tzahi

  Haniyyah, Akram; Madrid Conference and

  Harald V, King

  Harcourt, Hugh

  Haredim

  Hart, H.L.A.

  Hartman, David

  Harvard University; Arab Student Society at

  HASHD; “tiger” leaders

  Ha-shomer Ha-tzaír (“Young Guard”)

  Hassouneh, Ali

  “Hatikva,”

  Havel, Václav

  Hazorea, Kibbutz

  Hazzaʾ, Ahmad

  Hebrew University; Sari Nusseibeh as teacher at; Sari Nusseibeh’s 2001 lecture at

  Hebron, Goldstein massacre and riots in

  Hebron Islamic College

  Hegel, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm

  Heidegger, Martin

  Helena, mother of Constantine the Great

  Hellenistic culture and philosophy

  Heller, Mark A.

  Herod’s Gate Committee

  Hersh, Seymour

  Herzl, Theodor

  Herzliya Conferences; 2004

  Herzog, Chaim

  Hezbollah

  Higher Islamic Council

  Higher Political Committee

  Hirschfeld, Yair

  Hirst, David

  History and Philosophy of Logic

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The (Adams)

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hleileh, Samir

  Hockstader, Lee

  Hodgkins, Teddy

  Hoffman, Stanley

  Holocaust

  Holy Land Press Service

  Holy Sepulcher; see also Church of the Holy Sepulcher

  How to Do Things with Words (Austin)

  Human Chain initiative

  Hussein, King of Jordan; Arafat and; assumes power; expulsion of PLO from Jordan; relations with Israel; Six-Day War and

  Hussein, Saddam

  Husseini, Faisal; ancestry of; court hearings; death and funeral of; Gulf War and; imprisonment of; Madrid Conference and peace negotiations; Oslo Agreement and; secret peace negotiation of 1987 and; Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount and

  Husseini, Haj Amin, grand mufti of Jerusalem

  al-Husseini, Musaa Kazim

  el-Husseini, Abdel Kader

  Husseini Document

  Husseini family

  Hyde Park, “Speakers Corner,”

  Idris, Adnan

  Ignatius, David

  Independent, The (London)

  Indyk, Martin

  International Commission of Jurists

  International Court of Justice in the Hague

  International Herald Tribune

  International Monetary Fund

  intifada, first; “collaborators,” killings of; curfews during; diplomatic initiatives; financing of; Fourteen Points; the Husseini Document; Israeli public and; “the Jerusalem Document,”; provisional government, creation of a; serialized monthly leaflets; “Shamir plan,”; start of; UNC, see Unified National Leadership of the Uprising or Unified Command (UNC); violence, eruption of

  intifada, second

  Iran

  Iraq Baath Party and; Gulf War

  Irgun

  Iron Fist

  “Iron Wall: We and the Arabs, The,”

  Ishaq, Jad

  Islam; rites and celebrations

  Islamic Association

  Islamic Brotherhood

  Islamic civilization

  Islamic Jihad

  Islamic philosophy

  Islamists; growth of the Islamic movement in 1980s; Hamas, see Hamas; Israeli support for, as foil to secular Palestinian nationalists; students at Birzeit University in 1980s; Yassin and, see Yassin, Sheikh Ahmad

  Israel: Gulf War and; Lebanon invasion of 1982; Security Fence, see Security Fence, Israeli; see also individual leaders

  Israel, Wilfrid

  Israeli Council for Higher Education

  Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the heart of; intifadas, see intifada, first; intifada, second; mutual lack of understanding; nonviolence and, see nonviolence and civil disobedience; one-state solution, see one-state solution; peace talks, see specific negotiations and individuals; shared future and mutual interests; Six-Day War, see Six-Day War; two-state solution, see two-state solution; unwritten rules of; Yom Kippur War

  Israeli-Palestinian Science Organization (IPSO)

  Israeli-Palestinian War, 1947–1948; Anwar Nusseibeh’s memoirs, see Nusseibeh, Anwar (father), memoirs of the 1948 War; Palestinian refugees; preparedness of opponents for

  Israeli Special Forces

  Israel Radio

  Jaʾbari, Nabil

  el-Jabbar, Abd

  Jabotinsky, Zev

  Jaffa

  Jaffa Port

  Jaifa

  Jamal Pasha

  Jane’s Foreign Report


  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jericho Conference

  Jerusalem; archeological digs in; as city of three faiths; cold war atmosphere; East Jerusalem, see East Jerusalem; history of; Mea Sharim; 1948 War and; No Man’s Land; Old City, see East Jerusalem, Old City; prior to the Six-Day War; religious pilgrimage to; secret peace negotiation of 1987; Six-Day War and; tourism; UN partition plan and; see also Jerusalem; West Jerusalem, Israeli-controlled

  Jerusalem Epistle, The (al-Ghazali)

  Jerusalem Post

  Jerusalem Report

  Jesus

  Jewish Mind, The (Patai)

  Jewish Quarter

  Jewish State, The (Herzl)

  Jibril, Ahmad

  Jordan: Arafat and the PLO; intelligence service; Transjordan renamed; see also Hussein, King of Jordan

  “Jordanian option,” Peres and

  Joudeh family

  Kafka, Franz

  Kahane, Meir

  Kamal, Zahira

  Kant, Immanuel

  Karʾaeen, Ibrahim

  Katzav, Moshe

  Kelman, Herbert

  Kelman, Rose

  Kennedy, John F.

  Khader, Sami

  Khalidi, Ahmad

  al-Khalidi, Ahmad Sameh

  Khalidi, Walid

  al-Khalidi, Zia

  Khalidi family

  Khalifeh, Sahar

  Khan, Zadoc

  Khartoum Conference, 1967

  el-Khatib, Rauhi

  Khomeini, Ayatollah

  Khrushchev, Nikita

  kibbutzniks

  Kimmerling, Baruch

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  King David Hotel, 1946 bombing of

  Knesset, Israeli; Sadat’s 1977 speech

  Koestler, Arthur

  Kol HaʾIr

  Kollek, Teddy; Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and

  Koran

  Kulthum, Umm

  Kurtzer, Daniel

  Kuttab, Daoud

  Kuwait and the Gulf War

  Labor Party, Israeli; elections of 2003; peace platform, 2003; Security Fence and

  Landau, Uzi

  “Language of Sin, The,”

  Larsen, Terje

  Lawrence, T. E. (Lawrence of Arabia)

  Laws (Plato)

  League of Arab States

  Lebanon; Israeli 1982 invasion of; Israeli occupation of southern; “Kahan Report,”; massacre at Sabra and Shatila refugee camps; suicide bombings killing U.S. Marines in

  Leibniz, Gottfried

  Leibowitz, Yeshayahu

  Lemon Tree Café, Jerusalem

  Lewis, Anthony

  Lewis, C. S.

  Lieberman, Avigdor

  Life of Brian

  Likud Party, Israeli; elections and; Fatah compared with; secret peace negotiations of 1987 and; settlement movement and

  Living Son of the Vigilant, The (Avicenna)

  Locke, John

  Maʾariv

  Macias, Enrico

  Madrid Conference and peace talks; negotiations leading to; Palestinian political committees to support the; Palestinian shadow government; Ramallah rally in support of

  Magnes, Judah

  Mahdi, Muhsin

  al-Maʾmoun, second Abbasid caliph

  Mandela, Nelson

  Margalit, Avishai

  Masquerade (Williams)

  Matzpen

  McNamara, Robert

  Meir, Golda

  MEND (Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy)

  Meretz Party

  Meridor, Dan

  Metamorphosis (Kafka)

  Middle East in the World Economy, 1800–1914, The (Owen)

  Middle East Peace Institute, Washington, D.C.

  Military Order 752

  Military Order 830

  Military Order 854

  Military Order 994

  Military Order 1015

  Military Order 1020

  Military Order 1143

  Military Order 1147

  Miller, Arthur

  Milo, Roni

  Milson, Menachem

  Missing Peace, The (Ross)

  Mitzna, Avram

  Mohammed; tale of the Night Journey

  Moledet Party, Israeli

  Monday Report, The

  Monde, Le

  Monde Diplomatique, Le

  Monnet, Jean

  Monticello, Jefferson’s

  Moskowitz, Irving

  Mount Scopus

  Mount Zion

  Munich Olympics, murder of Israeli athletes at

  Muslim Brotherhood

  Muʾtazilites

  Najjab, Suleiman

  al Nashashibi, Fakhri

  Nashashibi family

  Nasir, Hanna

  Nasir, Musa

  Nasru, Fathiyya; the first intifada and

  Nassar, Najib

  Nasser, Gamal Abdul-

  Nasser, Jamil

  National Guidance Committee

  National Review

  Natsheh, Mustafa

  Nazzal, Nafez

  Netanyahu, Benjamin “Bibi,”; Oslo Agreement and

  New Left Review

  New Statesman, The

  Newsweek

  New Yorker, The

  New York Review of Books, The

  New York Times, The

  Night Journey to Jerusalem, Mohammed’s

  Nixon, Richard

  Nobel Peace Prize

  Noble Sanctuary, see Al-Aqsa (Noble Sanctuary) (Temple Mount)

  nonviolence and civil disobedience; first intifada, see intifada, first; Palestinian prisoner movement and; Security Fence and Al-Quds University; training course; see also Nusseibeh, Sari (author), peace efforts since 2001

  Noor, Queen of Jordan

  No Trumpets, No Drums (Nusseibeh and Heller)

  Novick, Robert

  Nusaybah family, see Nusseibeh family

  Nussbaum, Martha

  Nusseibeh, Absal (son); education of; Sari’s arrest and prison term; Sari’s letter from prison to

  Nusseibeh, Ahmad (relative)

  Nusseibeh, Ahmad (uncle)

  Nusseibeh, Anwar (father); after the Six-Day War; cancer, battle with; childhood of; death and funeral of; education of; as governor of Jerusalem; King Hussein and; injured in 1948 War; as Jordanian ambassador to England; as Jordanian minister of defense; Jordanian parliament and; legal career; memoirs of the 1948 War; Palestinian “government” in Cairo and; as pan-Arabist; religion and; as teacher; Zionism and

  Nusseibeh, Buraq (son); education of; the first intifada and; Sari’s arrest and prison term; Sari’s letter from prison to

  Nusseibeh, Hassan (uncle)

  Nusseibeh, Hatem (brother)

  Nusseibeh, Hazem (uncle)

  Nusseibeh, Jamal (son); education of; the first intifada and; Sari’s arrest and prison term; Sari’s letter from prison to; Shin Bet threats and

  Nusseibeh, Lucy Austin (wife); in Abu Dhabi; conversion to Islam; courtship; engagement; family background; the first intifada and; marriage of; nonviolence and; Sari’s arrest and prison term; Shin Bet threats and; as teacher; in the U.S.

  Nusseibeh, Munira (sister)

  Nusseibeh, Nuzha (daughter)

  Nusseibeh, Nuzha (mother); after 1948 War; after Six-Day War; school for girls; Shin Bet threats and; street politics and; Zionism and Jews

  Nusseibeh, Saedah (sister)

  Nusseibeh, Saker (brother)

  Nusseibeh, Salim (cousin)

  Nusseibeh, Sari (author) in Abu Dhabi; Al-Quds University and, see Al-Quds University, Sari Nusseibeh as president of; arrest and prison term; attacked as “traitor,”; birth of; bodyguards; “bombshell,” equal rights within Israel; childhood of; death threats; education of; family farm in Jordan Valley; the first intifada, role in; imprisonment; Madrid Conference and shadow government; naming of; nonviolence and, see nonviolence and civil disobedience; No Trumpets, No Drums; one-state solution, see one-state solution; PA corruption, investigation of; par
able illustrating the strength of the weak; peace efforts since 2001; PLO, Jerusalem post and; secret peace negotiation of 1987; Shin Bet and, see Shin Bet (Israeli security service), Sari Nusseibeh and; Six-Day War and; as teacher; two-state solution and, see two-state solution; union for university employees and; in the U.S. in 1990s; in the U.S. studying for his Ph.D.; “What Next?,”

  Nusseibeh, Zaki (brother); in Abu Dhabi; Six-Day War and

  Nusseibeh, Zaki (cousin)

  Nusseibeh family; Al-Kasr (“The Castle”); as doorkeepers of Church of the Holy Sepulcher; Jerusalem’s history and role of

  Occupied Territories; Israeli settlements in, see settlements, Israeli; return of Arafat and PLO exiles to; see also Gaza; West Bank

  Olmert, Ehud

  Omar the Great, Caliph

  one-state solution

  Open Society Foundation

  Orient House; Madrid Conference and; Palestinian shadow government, work on

  Oslo peace process and Oslo Agreement; Barak and; critics of; Declaration of Principles (DOP); disenchantment with; Ross’s history of, see Missing Peace, The (Ross)

  Ottoman Empire: decline of; World War I and

  Owen, Roger

  Oxford University; Christ Church college

  Oz, Amos

  Palestine al-Buraq Revolt of 1929; British administration of, see Britain, Palestine administered by; Great Rebellion of 1936–39; in late nineteenth century; mass immigration of Jews to; UN partition of, 1947; World War I and; Zionism and, see Zionism

  Palestine Arab Liberation Army

  Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)

  Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO); Charter of 1964; competition between Islamists and; Executive Committee; first intifada and; Gulf War, support for Saddam Hussein in; Israeli warfare with; Madrid Conference and; nonviolence and; Sari Nusseibeh’s Jerusalem post; Sari Nusseibeh’s views on; Observer status at UN General Assembly; Oslo peace process and; recognition of Israel’s right to exist; regarded as terrorist organization by Israeli government; rhetoric of; union for employees of Palestinian universities and Military Order 854; Shiekh Yassin and

  Palestine National Congress of 1964

  Palestine National Covenant

  Palestine Post

  Palestinian Authority (PA); creation of a government; East Jerusalem and; elections of 1995 and; finances and corruption; ineffectual government by; Ministry of Higher Education; Oslo Agreement and creation of; security forces; Sharon’s retaking of the West Bank and destruction of the

  Palestinian Center for the Study of Non-Violence

  Palestinian Communist Party

  Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR)

  Palestinian-Israeli conflict, see Israeli-Palestinian conflict

  Palestinian Legislative Council

  Palestinian nationalism; the countryside and; Sari’s Al-Quds article on

 

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