The Palestinian Revolution and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

الثورة الفلسطينية والنزاع العربي-الإسرائيلي

A militant intellectual dossier on Palestine, published in Spanish in Argentina in 1970 as no. 14 of Cuadernos de Pasado y Presente. It gathers interventions by Rodinson, Leduc, Revault d'Allonnes, Kahane, Vidal-Naquet, Trabulsi, and Malik, tracking a decisive shift in left-wing debate: from treating the Arab-Israeli conflict as a confrontation between states to recognizing Palestinian self-determination and revolutionary agency as the central issue. Trabulsi's long essay from New Left Review is the book's core, while the surrounding texts build the debate around it. The book matters not only as an early Spanish-language compilation on Palestine, but as evidence of how Arab, French, and British-left debates were translated and recoded for Latin American readers.

Notes

Cuadernos de Pasado y Presente, no. 14. First edition, 1970. Original Spanish title: La revolución palestina y el conflicto árabe-israelí. Source texts from Raison présente no. 10 (1969) and New Left Review I/57 (1969). Trabulsi's essay: 'The Palestine Problem: Zionism and Imperialism in the Middle East'.