Palestinian Competitive Identities: Between Nationalism and Islam / Tożsamości palestyńskie: miȩdzy nacjonalizmem a islamem

• Authors: Raphael Israeli
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The Palestinian people which is vying for independence amidst its struggle against Israel, has become a divided house both ideologically and territorially, with two rival leaderships contenting for the hearts of their followers. While the Palestinian Authority, which had signed the Oslo Agreement in 1993, has taken its resistance from violence and strives to conclude an agreement for its independence with Israel, and has held under its control, with some Israeli help, the West Bank, the Hamas, which has objected to, and refuted any idea of settling peacefully with Israel, has seized the rule of Gaza and established a radical government which does not recognize the PA’s primacy in Palestinian politics. The decision between those two competing authorities may either decide the fate of the Palestinian people in the years to come, or doom it to insolubility.

Keywords

EN

Oslo; Yasser Arafat; Palestinian Authority; Hamas; Egypt; violence; terrorism A

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio K – Politologia
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 7-24

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-28

Contributors

author

Raphael Israeli

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10226-012-0010-1