POLS 4730 Chapter 20 (Ellen Lust): Palestine – Alaa Tartir and Benoit Challand
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In other words, palestinians have been confronted with the existence of divided leaderships, split allegiances, lack of effective control over its territory, and external forces throughout the second half of the twentieth century. History of state-building the creation of a quasi-state: the famous picture taken on the white house lawn on september 13, 1993, portraying us president bill. Clinton inviting israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin and plo chairman yasir arafat to shake hands, was actually taken during the signing of the declaration of principles namely, the mutual recognition of the plo and israel. Operation desert storm in 1991 toppled the international balance on which the plo had based its strategy. Week 8: thus, armed struggle became central for the sense of palestinian identity, distinct from the whole pan-arab and nasserist hot-air rhetoric that brought nothing to the palestinians. In the aftermath of the 1967 defeat, arafat"s party thus became the natural candidate to succeed the founding generation of the plo.