This book is the transcription of a series of interviews conducted in Ramallah in October 2004. It is at once the story of a personal journey, an analysis of the current situation in Palestine and a series of proposals to address it. Barghouti recounts in detail his experience as a negotiator in Madrid, and how the Oslo Accords, signed by a leadership cut off from the people, came to destroy the hopes of a peace with justice. He explains why the struggle against the occupation of Palestine and the struggle for democracy within the national movement are inseparable. A lifelong supporter of non-violent popular resistance, he is ironic about those who come to talk to him about Gandhi, to whom he would rather be a Gramsci. A struggle waged on two fronts - against the occupation and against the parasitic and collaborating Palestinian bourgeoisie -, an unarmed resistance led by civil society, a concern to protect and help an oppressed people by leading social activities and the political movement at the same time, these are the principles defended by Mustafa Barghouti in this book. These are the words of a free man, independent of both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas and the "opposition" parties, which he explains are de facto subject to it, since they receive money from the Authority. A fascinating book that gives a new vision of the Palestinian resistance to come.
Staying on the Mountain: Conversations on Palestine book by Moustafa Barghouti and Éric Hazan
Staying on the Mountain: Conversations on Palestine book by Moustafa Barghouti and Éric Hazan
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Mustafa Barghouti is a physician. He heads the Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute in Ramallah. In 2002, he founded Al-Mudabara, the "New Palestinian Initiative", with two leading figures in Palestine, Edward Said and Haider Abdel-Shafi.