Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon

Contents
	Acknowledgements
	Prologue
	Beginnings
	Necessity and problems of Palestinian oral history
	Notes
	1. Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon A Historical/Political Overview
	Israel and Lebanon
	The United States: present/absent superpower
	Lebanon as ‘host*
	The regional framework
	The Palestinian Resistance movement: external/internal factors
	Notes
	The First Decade: Remembering Palestine, Learning Lebanon
	The founding of Shateela
	The setting
	The camp as habitat
	Work, iacome, living standards
	Neighbours
	Internal potttks
	‘The educational revolution’
	Health: conditions, services, indigenous practices
	Social stractve
	Village customs
	Shateela expuds
	Notes
	3.	The 1960s, Rule of the Deuxième Bureau
	The stole moves to
	Transfer attempts
	Arms and dandestinity
	Plastic sandals and certificates
	Popular culture
	The Iasi days of the Deuxième Bureau
	Notes
	4.	‘Days of the Revolution’, 1969-82
	Flags and euphoria
	The new authority
	Autonomy: trial and error
	External attacks and internal clashes
	BaUding a ’revolutionary environment’
	Changes in popular culture
	Families aad the Resistance movement
	A separate economy
	Farewell to the feda\'yeea
	Notes
	5.	The Massacre
	Notes
	6.	Lebanon in the Wake of the 1982 Invasion
	He *Paz Americana*
	Israel cots its losses
	* At last there is a victor aad a vanquished*
	The Syrian come-back
	The Lebanese Resistance movement
	Convergences and re-alignments
	Notes
	7.	Amal Movement and the Shi’i Awakening
	Historical backgrouad
	‘A people oppressed in their own country’
	Migration, urbanization, politicization
	Mosa Sadr and Shi’ite sectarian mobilization
	Amal Movement and the Civil War of 1975/6
	Amal Movement from 1978 to 1985
	Amal and the Palestinians
	Drawing the battle lines
	Notes
	8. Endangered Species: Palestinians in Lebanon after 1982
	Piecemeal pogrom
	Hie PLO after 1982
	National institutions: repression and survival
	Cantk», dandesthdty, collaboration
	Notes
	9.	The Siege of Ramadan (19 May to 22 June 1985)
	‘It was a war of annihilation!*
	‘What hick to have the chance to kill a Palestinian!\'
	‘My son still hasn\'t reappeared\'
	‘It was like the Paris Commue*
	‘We didn\'t let the sbebab lack anything\'
	‘We had no medical station’
	The gun is written on our foreheads\'
	T didn\'t accept being the \"woman in the base*\"
	Their plan was to reach the Mosque and cot Shateela in half
	The fall of Da’ouq
	252 Living the Sieges Fighters and non-fighters
	Organizing daily life
	T cooked for all the sbebabV
	After the siege
	There are many enemies*
	‘Aid now what?*
	Notes
	10.	The One-Month Siege (29 May to 27 June 1986)
	‘We began the operation of statistics*
	‘Our mothers are stragglers*
	‘I didn\'t tell them anything’
	‘My biggest problem was the children’
	‘We had to keep running\'
	They forgot that there was a war outside*
	‘Many more leaders got killed this time*
	The camp is our only country\'
	Notes
	11. The Five-Month Siege (25 November 1986 to 6 April 1987)
	Portrait of Emira
	Umm Mohammad and her neighbours
	‘We still don\'t have a saucepan\'
	How the siege started
	\'I didn’t worry about my children because everything is from God*
	Digging for survival
	A front-line family
	‘Amal’s basic strategy was to destroy the camp’
	la the Red Crescent hospital
	*... there were people who had nothing\'
	The drama of bread
	Outside Shateeia
	Internal politics
	The death of ’All Abo Towq
	‘It’s true Shateela was destroyed, but we were under the nibble*
	Fighter in an advanced base
	Children on the street
	\'Hide us, mother!\'
	A woman cadre
	‘One would rather drink salty water than lose a child*
	He bunting of a food lorry
	The last days of the siege
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Epilogue
	Another kind of siege
	The Ta’ef Accords and the Gulf War
	Shateela people
	Notes
	Appendix: A Brief History of the Third Siege
	An account by Abu Mujahed, Chairman of the Popular Committee
	Notes
	Select Bibliography
	Other useful sources
	List of Abbreviations
	Linguistic Glossary
	Political Glossary
	Index