Phases of Palestinan Mobilization

Question 1

What are the phases of Palestinian Mobilization?

Answer 1

1948 - 1967 - Accommodation/Acquiesce
1967 - 1993 - Palestinization
1994 - 2010’s - Politics of Indignity/ Ethnonationalism
2010s - Present - Centripetalism

Question 2

What are the characteristics of the Accommodation Phase?

Answer 2

Lack of political activism, little political mobilization, no separate arab parties, coaptation of Arab leaders by governing labour party, governed by martial law

Question 3

What are the characteristics of the Palestinzation phase?

Answer 3

Influenced by the six-day war, Jewish/Arab political representation, represented by domestic political elites, not PLO, Israeli - Arabs consolidation as a national and regional minority, renewed contact with Palestinians in WB and Gaza (spurring return to Palestinian roots), independent political activism through communist party

Question 4

What are the characteristics of the Politics of Indingity phase?

Answer 4

The peace process in the 1990’s recognized the PLO and established the PA, electoral shift to Arab parties resulting in organizational fragmentation of PAI representation, proposals to accommodate the PAI as Indigenous minority, challenging Israel’s ethnicity regime

Question 5

What are the characteristics of the Centripetalism phase?

Answer 5

A shift in the emphasis of social/civic demands in place of minority nationalism and self-determination, the emergence of politics of faith, move away from the margins of politics towards the center