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Research On Contemporary Palestinian Nationalism

Posted on:2018-11-18Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:N WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1316330542455873Subject:World History
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The question of Palestine is the core of the Middle East issue.The protracted Arab-Israeli conflict is extremely remarkable and Palestinian national liberation movement is also an important chapter in the history of national independence movement since World War ?.In this paper,the author use the theory of nationalism as the main analytical tool and treat the contemporary Palestinian history as the foothold.Palestinian nationalism is the main object of this study and its track of development can be divided into five stages with 1948,1964,1964 and 2004 as the watersheds.The purpose is to draw the complete context of the ebb and flow of Palestinian nationalism,to explore the cause for Palestinian failure in achieving their goal of self-determination and establishment of nation-state,to provide a profound and historical perspective for understanding the status quo.The first chapter discusses the change of Palestinian national identity from the Ottoman identity to the Palestinian identity and violence-oriented development of maintenance methods of national interest.It also analyses the reason why Palestinians return to violence after the failure of 1936 uprising and the cause for their failure of state-building in 1948 War.The second chapter explores the objective reasons and subjective efforts of Palestinian refugees in retaining their national identity,discusses cause and manifestation of accepting the governance of Arab countries for the local Palestinians and introduces the social development and political activities of all kinds of elite groups in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since then.The third chapter analyses the structural characteristics of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its process of obtaining internal and external legality,discusses the alteration of its territorial goals,maintenance methods of national interest and strategic focus and analyses the factors affecting its building practice of relations with Arab countries.The fourth chapter discusses the background,features and influence of Intifada,analyses the cause for the rise of political Islam groups,its political ideology and relationship with secular groups.It explores the cause for the successful lauch of Palestinian-Israeli peace process,its characteristics and effect.The fifth chapter analyzes the main content of the Palestinian national-state building,its challenges,achievement and shortage during Arafat's time.Then it discusses the brief cooperation and split betwen Fatah and Hamas and reviews the governance of Fatah in the West bank and its diplomatic game of entrance to United Nations.The conclusion part summarizes the six features of Palestinian nationalism and its negative influence.The first one is the volatile national identity which makes the Palestinians yield leadership of self-determination enterprise to Arab countries and prompts Palestinian families just to take refuge in the war of 1948.It is also the important cause for their national disaster.The Second one is the existence of moderation and extremalization of maintenance methods of national interests.Moderate methods cannot force rivals to surrender,but extreme means have destroyed their image in the world and make Palestinian be labeled as "terrorists".The third one is the limited authority of the central authorities.Its consequence is that instructions cannot be carried out from top to bottom and central authorities are not able to restrain the expressions and actions of the opposition.The Fourth one is the division and split of elite groups.The major factions have been divided and reorganized many times.Authority of their leadership is not strong enough and sectarianism is prevalent.The fifth one is the division of ethnic group.Palestinians are divided into exile and local residents geographically and the old generation and the young generation on age.These two polarizations cause dispute on course and increase the internal friction.The sixth one is the long-lasting lack of economic nationalism,resulting in ignoration of economic foundation for national independence,while political is nationalism abnormally developed.This also creates their thinking pattern of dependence on Israeli economy and endless troubles.These characteristics are the major defects of Palestinian nationalism and the fundamental cause for the failure of the cause of Palestinian national independence.
Keywords/Search Tags:Palestine, Nationalism, National identity, Maintenance Methods of National Interest, Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestinian-Israeli Peace process, State Building
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