The West Bank has for generations been the core area of the
Palestinian-Arab community and of its national movement. Since
1967, it has become the main area of confrontation in the prolonged
conflict between Palestinian-Arab and Jewish-Zionist nationalism.
The Palestinian armed organization, the PLO - which has undertaken
to lead the nationalist struggle of their people - was for long
periods unable to operate on the West Bank because of strict
security measures taken by the Jordanian and Israeli governments
respectively. Consequently, the Palestinian mayors in the West
Bank, who under Jordanian rule (1948-1967) had served as ruling
instruments of the government, gradually became under Israeli
control the political spokesmen of their communities. This book,
first published in 1984, examines this remarkable change in the
role of the West Bank Palestinian mayors, and their transformation
since the early 1970s from conservative-moderate figures into
radical-nationalist leaders. Against the background of the
developing Palestinian and Israeli militant nationalism in the West
Bank, the study analyses the complex relations between these new
leaders and the governments of Israel and Jordan as well as the PLO
command, until their final eviction by Israel in 1982.
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