“The West Bank under the Israeli Occupation’s Rule”, an Interview with Bassam ash-Shakʿa, November 1983

Published in 1983, this one-page article includes an interview with Bassam ash-Shakʿa on July 1983, two years following the Israeli occupation firing him from his position as mayor of Nablus in 1982. In the interview, ash-Shakʿa tackles the following: Palestinian municipalities condemning an Israeli-military-imposed civil administration and self-rule using the slogan “no to self-rule, yes to the PLO”; the pressures had undergone by the municipalities after refusing the Israeli civil administration imposed through the value-added tax; appointing the municipalities political duties, such as preventing demonstrations; and ash-Shakʿa receiving death threats and threats to close schools and factories in Nablus.