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Once Upon a Country

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by Sari Nusseibeh


  Palestinians: annexation with full rights; education system; expulsions/deportations of; imprisonment of, see prisons, Israeli; moderates, Israeli treatment of; national identity of; 1948 War and, see Israeli-Palestinian War, 1947–1948; refugees, see refugees, Palestinian; Six-Day War, see Six-Day War; tribal system of justice (Sulha); as underclass of workers; village life and culture of; Zionism and, see Zionism, rights and property of Palestinian Arabs and

  Panama, U.S. invasion of

  Pan-Arabism; history of; see also Arab nationalism

  Park Hotel Passover Massacre

  Party of Vagabonds

  Patai, Ralph

  Paul VI, Pope

  Peace Now

  People’s Campaign for Peace and Democracy, see HASHD

  People’s Voice

  Peres, Shimon; Government of National Unity; “Jordanian option” and; Oslo Agreement and; Sari’s meeting with; settlement movement and

  Peri, Yaʾakov

  Petah Tikva working paper

  Piaf, Edith

  Pines, Shlomo

  Plato

  “PLO Represents the People, Not Itself, The,”

  Podhoretz, Norman

  politicide

  Popper, Sir Karl

  Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP)

  Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

  Possessed, The (Dostoyevsky)

  Powell, Colin

  Presley, Elvis

  Preventive Security Academy, Jericho

  prisons, Israeli; first intifada and; interrogations and torture in; Sari Nusseibeh’s arrest and imprisonment; Palestinian prisoner movement; Petah Tikva working paper

  Problems of Philosophy (Russell)

  Protocols of the Elders of Zion

  Pundak, Ron

  Qaisi, Zuhair

  Qassam, Sheikh Izzeddin

  al-Qawukji, Fawzi

  Qibya, 1953 massacre in

  Queen’s College, Cambridge

  Quine, W.V.O.

  Qureiʾa, Ahmed, see Abu Ala

  Rabbo, Hassan Abed

  Rabbo, Yasser Abed

  Rabin, Yitzhak; assassination of; first intifada and; Government of National Unity; Oslo Agreement and; settlements and; Six-Day War and

  Radcliffe Institute at Harvard

  Rajoub, Jibril; attempted assassination of; expulsion of; Higher Political Committee and Fatah Higher Committee; Palestinian security forces and; Parliamentary seat sought by; suicide bombings and

  Ramadan War

  Ramle, village of

  el-Rayyes, Zuheir

  Reagan, Ronald

  Red Cross

  refugee camps; first intifada and

  refugees, Palestinian, see Israeli-Palestinian War, 1947–1948, Palestinian refugees; refugee camps; right of return

  Remnick, David

  Revolt, The (Begin)

  Rice, Condoleezza

  Richard the Lionheart, King

  right of return; Destination Map and

  roadblocks, see checkpoints and roadblocks

  Rock of Golgotha

  Rohan, Michael

  Ross, Dennis

  Rothschild, Baron Edmond de

  Rothschild, Lord (Walter)

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

  Rubinstein, Danny

  Rubinstein, Eliakim

  Rugby (English prep school)

  rule of law, constitutional

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Rushdie, Jamil

  Russell, Bertrand

  Sabra, Abdulhamid

  Sadat, Anwar; Camp David Accords; speech before the Knesset, 1977

  Safadi, Mahmoud

  Safieh, Afif

  Safwat, Ismail

  Said, Edward

  al-Sakakini, Khalil

  Saladin

  Salah, Munthir

  Sandhurst

  Sarid, Yossi

  “Sari Nusseibeh—Arafat’s Mouth, but Saddam’s Eyes and Ears,”

  Sartawi, Issam

  Saudi Arabia

  el-Sayegh, Yousef

  Al-Sayeh, Sheikh Abdel Hamid

  Sbeihat, Samir; the first intifada and

  Sbouh, Sherif

  Schmidt Girls’ College

  Schola Cantorum

  second intifada, see intifada, second

  Security Fence, Israeli; Al-Quds University campus and; as “Apartheid Wall,”; history of idea for; Sharon’s motive; violence created by

  Sephronius, Bishop

  Sesame Street, Palestinian-Israeli version of

  settlements, Israeli; Christian fundamentalists and; “disengagement” from Gaza; in East Jerusalem, see East Jerusalem, Israeli settlements in; Gush Emunim settler movement, see Gush Emunim settler movement; Madrid Conference and; as obstacle to peace; Oslo Agreement and; terrorist attacks and; two-state solution hindered by; in the West Bank, see West Bank, Israeli settlements in

  sexual freedom

  Shaʾath, Nabil

  Shabibah (Fatah youth movement); first intifada and

  Shafi, Dr. Haidar Abdul

  Shahal, Moshe

  Shakaʾa, Bassam

  Shamir, Yitzhak; Government of National Unity; Madrid Conference and peace talks; secret peace negotiations in 1987

  “Shamir Plan,”

  Sharansky, Natan

  Sharon, General Ariel; “disengagement” from Gaza; elections of 2001; elections of 2003; Lebanon invasion of 1982; Oslo Agreement and; Qibya massacre and; retaking of the West Bank and destruction of the PA; Security Fence and, see Security Fence, Israeli; settlement movement and; the Village League and; visit to the Temple Mount and second intifada; Yom Kippur War

  Shaʾth, Nabil

  Shehadeh, Sameer; arrest and interrogation of; Destination Map and; the first intifada and; sons of

  al-Sheikh, Hussein

  Sher, Gilʾad

  Shiite Muslims

  Shikaki, Khalil

  Shin Bet (Israeli security service); Al-Quds University’s administrative offices and; Ami Ayalon as head of; first intifada and; HASHD and; Sari Nusseibeh and; Petah Tikva Prison working paper and

  Shtayyeh, Mohammed

  Shuhaded, Abdul Fattah

  Shukeiri, Ahmad

  Sinai War of 1956

  Siniora, Hanna; the first intifada and

  Six-Day War; events leading to; Israeli borders after

  60 Minutes

  Smadi, Hamzeh; the first intifada and

  “Smarter Without Violence” summer camp

  Smithsonian Institution

  Sneh, Efraim

  Sofer, Arnon

  “Son of Anwar Nusseibeh, The,”

  Sontag, Susan

  Soros, George

  South Africa, apartheid regime in

  Soviet Jews

  Spaer, Arnold

  speech, freedom of

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stern, Abraham

  Stern Gang (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel)

  St. George’s School

  St. Hilda’s College

  Strauss, Leo

  Strawson, Peter

  Stroumsa, Gedaliahu (“Guy”)

  Stroumsa, Sarah

  Sufism

  suicide bombings; motivation of; Park Hotel Passover Massacre

  Supreme Court, Israeli

  Sweden

  Sykes-Picot Pact

  Syria; Baath Party and

  Taha, Mutawakkil

  Tale of Love and Darkness, A (Oz)

  Tawil, Raymondah

  Teitelbaum, Joel

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

  Temple Mount Faithful

  terrorism; Hamas and, see Hamas, terrorism and; Hezbollah and, see Hezbollah; Irgun; 9/11; Stern Gang (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel); suicide bombings, see suicide bombings

  Thieves in the Night (Koestler)

  “Thinking the Unthinkable,”

  Thoreau, Henry David

  Thorpe, Merle

  Thucydi
des

  Time for Peace document

  Times of London

  Tolkien, J.R.R.

  Tolstoy, Leo

  Truman, Harry S.

  Tutu, Desmond

  two-state solution; Bush and; Destination Map, see Destination Map; the first intifada and; grassroots approach to; the Husseini Document and; No Trumpets, No Drums; Anwar Nusseibeh and; opinion polls; secret peace negotiation of 1987; settlements as hindrance to

  Ubadah ibn al-Samit

  Um Jihad

  UNICEF

  Unified National Leadership of the Uprising or Unified Command (UNC); arrest and interrogation of members of; speculation about members of

  United Arab Emirates

  United Nations; emergency forces; Military Order 854 and

  United Nations General Assembly; Arafat’s 1974 speech at; partition of Palestine, 1947

  United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA)

  United Nations Security Council Resolution 242; Resolution 338

  University of Pavia, lecture at

  University of Virginia

  U.S. State Department

  Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

  Vietnam Solidarity Campaign

  Village League

  Vocational Training Institute

  Voice of the Arabs

  Voice of the Lightning Bolt

  Walden (Thoreau)

  Wallace, Mike

  War and Peace (Tolstoy)

  Warburg, Aby

  Warburg Institute

  Washington Post, The

  Weisglass, Dov

  Weizmann, Chaim

  West Bank; anarchy in; economy of; first intifada and, see intifada, first; Israeli occupation of; Israeli settlements in; Jordanian control of; military governors of; nationalist mayors in, fate of; Palestinian Authority and, see Palestinian Authority (PA); Security Fence and, see Security Fence, Israeli; Sharon’s 2002 retaking of; Six-Day War and; warlordism, degeneration into

  West Bank Civil Administration

  Western Wall (al-Burak); al-Buraq Revolt of 1929; Six-Day War and

  West Jerusalem, Israeli-controlled; see also East Jerusalem; Jerusalem

  “What Next?,”

  Wilfrid Israel Museum

  will, free

  will, individual; see also free will

  Williams, Kit

  Williamson, Molly

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig

  Wolf, John

  Wolfowitz, Paul

  Woman of Violence: Memoirs of a Young Terrorist, 1943–1948 (Cohen)

  Woman’s Determination, A

  Women in Black

  Woodrow Wilson Institute, Washington, D.C.

  World Bank

  World Conference of Muslims, 1922

  World War I

  World War II

  Wretched of the Earth, The (Fanon)

  Wye Agreement and negotiations

  Yaʾacobi, Gad

  Yaari, Ehud

  Yaari, Menahem

  Yassin, Sheikh Ahmad; arrest of; Hamas charter of 1988 and; Israeli government’s support for Islamists and; release from prison; “Shamir plan” and

  Yom Kippur War

  Young Turks

  Young Women’s Muslim Society

  Zayed, Sheikh

  Zimmerman, Fritz

  Zionism; Balfour Declaration and, see Balfour Declaration; end of World War I and; history of; 1948 War and; partition of Palestine and; rights and property of Palestinian Arabs and

  Zionism: Its History, Aims, and Importance (Nassar)

  Zippori, Mordechai

  Zuheikeh, Salah

  ALSO BY SARI NUSSEIBEH

  No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement

  of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with Mark A. Heller)

  Jerusalem

  About the Author

  Sari Nusseibeh, a philosopher, was the Palestine Liberation Organization’s chief representative in Jerusalem from 2001 to 2002, in which role he advocated a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is the president of and a professor at Al-Quds University, the Arab University of Jerusalem. Nusseibeh was educated at Oxford and Harvard, and was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow at Harvard for 2004-05. He is the author of two previous books. You can sign up for author updates here.

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  Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Prologue A Fairy Tale

  One The Key

  Two The Pan-Arab Nation

  Three Promises, Promises

  Four The Herod’s Gate Committee

  Five The Pepper Tree

  Six A Grapevine

  Seven Smashing Idols

  Eight Sunflower

  Nine Monticello

  Ten The Lemon Tree Café

  Eleven The Salon

  Twelve Military Order 854

  Thirteen Masquerade

  Fourteen Murder on the Via Dolorosa

  Fifteen Faisal Husseini

  Sixteen Annex Us!

  Seventeen Sticks and Stones

  Eighteen The Exorcism

  Nineteen A Declaration of Independence

  Twenty Interrogation

  Twenty-one Ramle Prison

  Twenty-two Madrid

  Twenty-three A Shadow Government

  Twenty-four Oslo

  Twenty-five The Disappearance

  Twenty-six Porcupines and Roosters

  Twenty-seven Holy of Holies

  Twenty-eight The Possessed

  Twenty-nine Allies

  Thirty Checkmate

  Thirty-one The Iron Fist

  Thirty-two “The Tigers”

  Thirty-three The Perfect Crime

  Epilogue A Night Journey

  Notes

  Acknowledgments

  Index

  Also by Sari Nusseibeh

  About the Author

  Copyright

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  Copyright © 2007 by Sari Nusseibeh

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  First edition, 2007

  All uncredited photographs are courtesy of the author.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nusseibeh, Sari.

  Once upon a country : a Palestinian life / Sari Nusseibeh with Anthony David.

  p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references.

  eISBN: 978-1-250-09875-7

  1. Nusseibeh, Sari. 2. Palestinian Arabs—Biography. 3. Arab-Israeli conflict. I. David, Anthony, Ph.D. II. Title.

  DS119.7.N825 2007

  956.94’42054092—dc22

  [B] 2006013272

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