POLI 347 Chapter Notes - Chapter Khalidi: Nationstates, Ottomanism, Golda Meir
8 Jun 2021
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The formation of palestinian identity: the critical years, 1917-23. Palestinian identity is complicated by the difficulty of explaining its interrelation with broad, powerful transnational foci of identity, in particular arabism and islam, and with other potent regional and local loyalties. Further complicated by intimate intertwining of the palestinian narrative with that of israel and the jewish people. Palestinian idenity has never enjoyed such success - israeli pm golda meir: There was no such thing as palestinians they did not exist - expresses common view that over time has come to be widely held among westerners generally. Issues of palestinian identity are hotly disputed in us and israel - they occasion controversy in arab world and among palestinians. Radical arab nationalist perspective - very existence of nation-states in arab world is suspect. Radical islamist perspective - palestinian-centred nationalism is tantamount to heresy because it splits the broader muslim umma (community/nation)
