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Though the fedayeen lost the battle against Israeli forces at [[Karameh]], they did inflict much heavier casualties on Israel than had been expected. Thus, Karameh became what [[Rashid Khalidi]] has termed the "foundation myth" of the Palestinian commando movement, whereby "failure against overwhelming odds [was] brilliantly narrated as as heroic triumph."<ref name=Schulz/>
The [[France|French]] writer [[Jean Genet]] who visited Palestinian fedayeen at their bases in [[Jordan]] between 1970 and 1972, "memorialized what he perceived to be their bravery, idealism, flexibility of identity, and heroism" in his novel ''Prisoner of Love'' (1986).<ref name=Rubenberg>{{cite book|title=''The Palestinians: In Search of a Just Peace''|author=Cheryl Rubenberg|year=2003|page=40|publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers|isbn=1588262251}}</ref>
==See also==
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