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This text deals with the task of shedding light in the creation of Palestinian nationalism(s) and national identity. The study seeks to explain how Palestinian nationalism is constantly being recreated (as well as the very meaning of Palestinian national identity) as it oscillates between the two notions of "struggle" and "suffering". The book draws on official PLO documents and intifada leaflets as well as an extensive oral history. Since the Palestine case is still under-theorized, this book seeks to fill a gap in the study of Palestinian nationalism. It also adds to our understanding of the formation of nationalism in general terms, in the way that it illustrates how nationalism is produced in the incessant interplay between external processes and structures an internal creative dynamics.
Contents
Part 1 Introduction - nationalism and the PalestiniansIsraeli conflict and nationalism; nationalism as an ideology of boundedness; space and time; homogenization and state-building; national identities - self and other, the nation/ethnicity as family; key issues and analytical scheme; a discussion on method. Part 2 From elite proto-nationalism to mass based revolution: factionalism and early elite mobilization; formulation of Palestinian nationalism; the great revolt and popular "proto-nationalism"; the catastrophe and the dispersal; arab nationalism as dominant discourse 1948-1967; the nationalism of al-Fateh; the PLO between nationalism and patriotism, between unity and liberation - Arabism and the Marxist fronts, struggle, revolution and exile, institution-building, class, gender,m refugees, Arab states and the PLO, steps towards shifting goals and strategies 1974. Part 3 From intifada to self-government: Israeli politics towards the occupied territories; Palestinian politics prior to the intifada - the West Bank, Gaza; the intifada - institution-building and leadership organization, the nationalism of the intifada, end to the intifada; Islamism as counter-discourse - Hamas as an organisation, Islamic Jihad, the Islamist movement and Palestinian nationalism, Islamic movements and the struggle. Part 4 State-building and the peace process: state building - institution-building and political structure, revolution versus state-building; state-building - "this is a country to be made" - the agreements - "the best of the worse", Fateh - state-building party and internal opposition; leftist opposition - long term solution - "a democratic state in all of Palestine"; Islamism - the agreements - "we are the true owners of Palestine", long-term solution - "we have to get rid of Israel from this area"; reformism - the agreements - "they will retain authority". Part 5 Palestinian identity - a border construction: denial; the state; to "struggle"; to "suffer"; identities in negotiation -remnants of Arabism, identity betrayed, Islam, nationalism and identity - "Islam is the main thing"; the Palestinian national authority - official nationalism - "we don't have a magic stick" -leftism and the PNA - "it is so limited, so poor, so bad", Islamism and the authority - "if they don't succeed, there are people to fill ; the gaps, reformism and the authority - "there is much to be hoped for"; internal conflicts - official nationalism - "Hamas are our brothers"; "inside-outside" - "they have to change their mentality. Part 6 Perceptions of the "other". (Part contents).
