The reconstruction of Palestinian nationalism: between revolution and statehood

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction - nationalism and Palestinians: Palestinian Israeli conflict and nationalism nationalism as an ideology of boundedness space and time homogenization and state-building national identities - self and other, nation/ethnicity as family key issues and analytical scheme discussion on method. Part 2 From elite to mass based revolution: factionalism and early elite mobilization formulation of Palestinian nationalism great revolt and popular proto-nationalism catastrophe and dispersal arab nationalism as dominant discourse 1948-1967 nationalism of al-Fateh PLO between nationalism and patriotism, between unity and liberation - Arabism and Marxist fronts, struggle, revolution and exile, institution-building, class, gender,m refugees, Arab states and PLO, steps towards shifting goals and strategies 1974. Part 3 From intifada to self-government: Israeli politics towards occupied territories Palestinian politics prior to intifada - West Bank, Gaza intifada - institution-building and leadership organization, nationalism of intifada, end to intifada Islamism as counter-discourse - as an organisation, Islamic Jihad, Islamist movement and Palestinian nationalism, Islamic movements and struggle. Part 4 State-building and peace process: state building - institution-building and political structure, revolution versus state-building state-building - is country to be made - agreements - the best of worse, Fateh - state-building party and internal opposition leftist opposition - long term solution - a democratic state in all of Palestine Islamism - agreements - we are true owners of Palestine, long-term solution - we have to get rid of Israel from this area reformism - agreements - will retain authority. Part 5 Palestinian identity - border construction: denial state to struggle to suffer identities in negotiation -remnants of Arabism, identity betrayed, Islam, nationalism and identity - Islam is main thing Palestinian national authority - official nationalism - we don't have magic stick -leftism and PNA - it is so limited, so poor, so bad, Islamism and authority - if they don't succeed, are people to fill gaps, reformism and authority - there is much to be hoped for internal conflicts - official nationalism - Hamas are our brothers inside-outside - have to change their mentality. Part 6 Perceptions of other. (Part contents).