POLS 4730 Chapter Notes - Chapter Helga Baumgarten: Palestinian Nationalism, Fatah, Arab Nationalism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 4730
• Professor: Janine Clark

Document Summary

The three faces/phases of palestinian nationalism, 1948-2005 helga baumgarten: the palestinian national movement seems to be passing through its most serious crisis since it came into being following the 1948 catastrophe. In the west bank, fragmentation is accelerating, transforming it into a chain of disconnected ghettos, while the option of east jerusalem as the palestinian capital increasingly appears foreclosed. Hamas: these three movements are in fact different manifestations perhaps best understood as faces or. Phases of palestinian nationalism, which also coincide with and reflect overall ideological trends in the. It highlights points of comparison and examines the reasons for each movement"s relative success and then failure, and ultimately, the overall failure of them all to this day. Its ideology was arab nationalism, its identity was arab because the majority of man"s founders were. Palestinian arabs, however, the movement"s identity can be said to have a palestinian core.