Category Palestinian politics
CHOOSING BETWEEN IMPOSSIBLES
Palestinians always claimed their rights to historical Palestine. . . Then someone came along and convinced them that this was utopian and would not happen, offering a trade-off to go for the possible instead. Now people realise the possible and the impossible are both impossible, so they might as well stick to the impossible. But […]
AMIRA HASS ON ISRAEL’S ENCLAVES STRATEGY
Amira Hass on how Hamas and Fatah have effectively bought into and become invested in Israel’s strategy for preempting Palestinian self-determination: Both rival ruling movements were manoeuvred into becoming part of a geopolitical reality that Israel has been shaping relentlessly since 1991: the enclaves reality, aka the Bantustans – in short, the deliberate torpedoing of […]

MOUIN RABBANI ON THE CRISIS OF PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM
[The Palestinian national] movement no longer exists. Its rival claimants, for the time being based in Ramallah and Gaza City, have essentially abandoned anything remotely resembling a genuinely national project, consistently put factional privilege ahead of the national interest, and have become past masters at sabotaging any effort at popular mobilisation. It would be no […]