| Abstrakt: |
The Palestinian arena has suffered serious upheaval in recent years. The leadership in Ramallah has lost much of its legitimacy, and Hamas is not accepted by the public as a preferred alternative to the PLO and the Palestinian Authority. The path of political negotiations under Abu Mazen has failed, and the path of armed resistance led by Hamas caused much destruction and division within the Palestinian people. The PA has been declared a failure, with its leadership seen as holding onto power at all costs. Hamas, which is aware of its limitations as an alternative, demands to be part of any future leadership. The result is an unprecedented crisis that places the Palestinian national movement in a state of ideological and organizational confusion. This article analyzes the current internal Palestinian reality and explains what led the Palestinian national movement to this nadir and what has changed in its approach to the conflict. What Palestinian leadership stands to emerge next? And are we approaching the end of the agreement-oriented era that has existed since the Oslo Accords? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
