Suchergebnisse

In analysing the political resolutions of PNCs one through nineteen, with particular reference to objectives and means, three major stages in Palestinian political thinking are identified: 1. the "total liberation" phase (1964-1968); 2. the secular democratic state phase (1969-1973); and 3. the two-state solution phase. This evolution in the framing of goals parallels an evolution in the specification of the means for achieving them, from exclusive reliance on armed struggle, to partial reliance on diplomacy in conjunction with armed struggle, to equal reliance on the two, to the elevation of diplomatic effort at the expense of military effort, to insistence on participation in a Middle East peace conference and readiness to open a direct dialogue with the Israeli government. (DÜI-Hns)

After the final defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the old order of political allegiance to the dynastic sovereign of the Islamic state was gradually replaced. Local nationalism began to take root in Palestine, Syria, and Iraq and gradually came to prevail. This essay is devoted to the early stages of this process in Palestine. Two frameworks are considered: the ideological, and the institutional. (DÜI-Hns)