The Reconstruction of Palestinian Nationalism: Between Revolution and Statehood

Part 1 Introduction - nationalism and the Palestinians: Palestinian Israeli conflict and nationalism; nationalism as an ideology of boundedness; space and time; homogenization and state-building; national identities - self and other, the nation/ethnicity as family; key issues and analytical scheme; a discussion on method. Part 2 From elite proto-nationalism to mass based revolution: factionalism and early elite mobilization; formulation of Palestinian nationalism; the great revolt and popular proto-nationalism; the catastrophe and the dispersal; arab nationalism as dominant discourse 1948-1967; the nationalism of al-Fateh; the PLO between nationalism and patriotism, between unity and liberation - Arabism and the Marxist fronts, struggle, revolution and exile, institution-building, class, gender,m refugees, Arab states and the PLO, steps towards shifting goals and strategies 1974. Part 3 From intifada to self-government: Israeli politics towards the occupied territories; Palestinian politics prior to the intifada - the West Bank, Gaza; the intifada - institution-building and leadership organization, the nationalism of the intifada, end to the intifada; Islamism as counter-discourse - Hamas as an organisation, Islamic Jihad, the Islamist movement and Palestinian nationalism, Islamic movements and the struggle. Part 4 State-building and the peace process: state building - institution-building and political structure, revolution versus state-building; state-building - this is a country to be made - the agreements - the best of the worse, Fateh - state-building party and internal opposition; leftist opposition - long term solution - a democratic state in all of Palestine; Islamism - the agreements - we are the true owners of Palestine, long-term solution - we have to get rid of Israel from this area; reformism - the agreements - they will retain authority. Part 5 Palestinian identity - a border construction: denial; the state; to struggle; to suffer; identities in negotiation -remnants of Arabism, identity betrayed, Islam, nationalism and identity - Islam is the main thing; the Palestinian national authority - official nationalism - we don't have a magic stick -leftism and the PNA - it is so limited, so poor, so bad, Islamism and the authority - if they don't succeed, there are people to fill ; the gaps, reformism and the authority - there is much to be hoped for; internal conflicts - official nationalism - Hamas are our brothers; inside-outside - they have to change their mentality. Part 6 Perceptions of the other. (Part contents).