Abstract:

When the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) decided to embark on the two-state political platform in 1974, this constituted tacit recognition of the reality of the state of Israel in Palestine within the Green Line. The PLO’s shift was also effectively an admission of defeat for the previous PLO programme that called for a secular, democratic state throughout all of Palestine. Today, advocates of the one-state solution argue that the two-state solution is no longer possible due to the realities Israel has created on the ground in the West Bank and Gaza. In other words, the political programme launched by the PLO in 1974 has effectively been defeated. The growing one-state movement is; thus, the third time Palestinians are reacting to Israel’s defeat of Palestinian attempts to obtain their human rights. It is against this background that this paper attempts to address three questions: Why has the two-state political programme not been achieved?; What sources of non-violent power could potentially realize and effect Palestinian human rights?; and What is the single most important strategy of which no Palestinian political programme should ever lose sight?

Read full text here: Reversing defeat through non-violent power

Keywords:

Palestine

Palestinian cause

Israeli occupation

BDS movement (boycott, divestment, sanctions)

non-violence

two-state solution

one-state solution

Intifada

Zionism

Human Rights

 

Notes:

(*) Contemporary Arab Affairs, Vol. 2 No. 4, October-December 2009; (pp. 566-575) DOI: 10.1080/17550910903236717

Published By: University of California Press Journals
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© 2009 The Centre for Arab Unity Studies

(**) Nadia Hijab: Author and independent analyst

Corresponding author e-mail: hijab@palestine-studies.org

 

 


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