The Cairo Dilemma: Domestic Fracture and the Rise of ‘Fatehland’ (1968–1970)

The catastrophic defeat of the regular Arab armies in the June 1967 War had left the burgeoning Palestinian resistance movement as the sole force actively committed to maintaining an armed struggle against Israel. According to the historian Edgar O’Ballance, the very first fedayeen assault launched against Israel from Lebanese territory took place on 1 June […] By Mohammad Fakih