This book is in Arabic. It focuses on the rise of the Palestinian resistance movement since the 1967 war – referred to as the Naksa, or “Setback” – and how it affected the Palestinian people’s national standing and national cause during the years that followed. The resistance movement enhanced the Palestinians’ national standing despite the great obstacles and “setbacks” it suffered from, whether in Jordan (1970-1971) or in Egypt with the regime’s exit from the standoff with Israel during the mid-Seventies of the past century. Both of these “setbacks” in turn greatly impacted the breakout of internal and regional wars among Arab Eastern countries such as the civil war in Lebanon; the Iraqi-Iranian war and the strife among the parties of the Front for Steadfastness and Endurance.