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Palestinian Politics after Arafat

The Predicament of the ‘Palestinian National Movement’

As'ad Ghanem, Phd, is Head of The Government & Political Philosophy Department, School of Political Science, University of Haifa, Israel. [email: ghanemasad{at}yahoo.com]

This article attempts to understand the internal situation of the Palestinians and their national movement at the start of the twenty-first century. I hereby attempt to trace and analyze concrete aspects of the state of the Palestinian national movement in the post-Oslo era. What happened during the past decade to the Palestinians in general, and to their national movement in particular, led to the internal and external failure. Externally, this failure was manifested in the disintegration of the regional and international status of the Palestinian national movement. Concomitantly, the efforts to establish a Palestinian state and resolve the conflict reached a dead end because of the deep internal schism which had developed, and which is incompatible with national unity.

Key Words: Palestinians • Arafat • failed national movement • Hamas • Palestinian National Authority • Oslo Agreement

Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. 24, No. 4, 465-487 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0169796X0902400403


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