The Palestinian National Movement

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMAL JAMAL
Keyword(s):  
National Movement ◽  
Palestinian National Movement

The Palestinian National Movement

Rebel Power ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Krause
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Group Behavior ◽  
Limited Success ◽  
National Movement ◽  
National Movements ◽  
Palestinian National Movement ◽  
The Impact

This chapter on the Palestinian national movement examines the impact of hierarchy on group behavior. It uses a variety of tight within-case comparisons, in which the shifting of variables at different times allows for powerful assessments of why groups such as Fatah, the PFLP, and the Jordanian Communist Party used or restrained violence at different periods in their history. The chapter also illustrates “the tragedy of national movements”: Palestinian groups knew they needed hegemony to succeed, but their desire for power kept them largely fragmented. Regardless of changes in time or space, the Palestinian national movement met with strategic failure when the movement was fragmented (1965–1973, 1975–1985, and 2001–2016); limited success when it was united (1974); and its greatest success when the movement was hegemonic (1986–1993 and 1995–2000).

The Idolatry of Force: How Israel Embraced Targeted Killing

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-99
Author(s):  
Paul Gaston Aaron
Keyword(s):  
Field Test ◽  
Targeted Killing ◽  
National Movement ◽  
Electoral Support ◽  
Second Intifada ◽  
The Face ◽  
Palestinian National Movement ◽  
Symbolic Performance

Not until the Second Intifada did assassination emerge as an explicit, legally codified, and publicly announced doctrine of so-called targeted killing in Israel. This study, the first of a two-part series, explores the doctrine's historical roots and ideological lineage and tracks its rise under the premiership of Ariel Sharon. Targeted killing became institutionalized not just to reduce direct and imminent threats against Israelis but also to mobilize electoral support, field-test weapons and tactics, and eliminate key figures in order to sow chaos and stunt the development of an effective Palestinian national movement. The study frames the analysis within a wider meditation on Israel's idolatry of force. As much symbolic performance as military technique, targeted killing reenacts and ritualizes Palestinian humiliation and helplessness in the face of the Zionist state's irresistible power, making this dynamic appear a fact of life, ordained and immutable.

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