Thoughts toward a reconsideration of Palestinian Fragmentation post-20051

Abstract

To consider Palestine at the beginning of the twenty-first century is to confront a shared sense of its apparent “disappearance”. This is seen first of all in the break-up of a population which is part of a multitude of parallel realities : refugees who, in Lebanon, ask for the «right to exile» to compensate for their impossible return or who, in Syria, engage – sometimes under duress – in a civil war which throws them into a second exile ; Palestinians of Israel (sometimes incorrectly called...