So there is a Palestine, after all. (uprising in the occupied territories)

Economist (US), The, February, 1988

AS THE Palestinian rioting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip enters its third month, journalists have started to put an unusual item on their expense accounts: checked keffiyeh head-dresses, which they drape across the dashboards of their cars. These sometimes help to ward off the stones that have become a routine feature of life on the roads of the territories.

The keffiyeh is a much older symbol of Palestinian nationalism than the three-day stubble and designer battledress of Mr Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. In 1938, at the height of what Arab historiography remembers as the "great rebellion" against the British, Arab peasants wearing keffiyehs brought the spirit of revolt to the towns. Today the...

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