The institutionalization of Fatah mirrors the evolution of the PLO and the Palestinian national cause generally. Understanding the factors that have influenced Fatah s politics of violence, and its political path and the balance between the two help to explain the political history of the Middle East in recent decades. This book documents Fatah s rise to prominence within the variegated Palestinian national movement through a detailed analysis of the organization s evolution from its inception in 1959, through the climactic institutional accomplishment of 1993 with the signing of the Oslo...