The Identity of Palestine


	The Identity of Palestine

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11-1-2007 7:17 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0c727f6e-0fd1-4250-845c-5e0dfdaecabe/37AC0E4B-A839-4C7C-82F5-88CD198B821D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=14174" href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=14174" style="font-size: 11px;">www.zmag.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=14174">An iron law of the conflict over <ST1:CITY _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Palestine</ST1:CITY> has been the refusal by the Zionist movement and its backers, first <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Great Britain</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> and then the <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">United States</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>, to make room for the existence of Palestinians as a political community. This non-recognition is rooted in historical forces that predate the existence of the Zionist movement and the Palestinians as a people. Consequently, there is a tension between identity and territory, with obvious repercussions for the following questions: Who are the Palestinians? What do they want? And who speaks for them? This essay calls for a critical reappraisal of the relationship between the concepts “<ST1:CITY _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Palestine</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY>” and “Palestinians,” as well as of the state-centered project of successive phases of the Palestinian national movement.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=14174">The iron law and ironies of their history have made the Palestinians a potent symbol of the dark side of modernity, and the cause of <ST1:CITY _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Palestine</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY> has become a conspicuous element in progressive movements across the globe</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/37AC0E4B-A839-4C7C-82F5-88CD198B821D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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