From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Sam Bahour was published by +972 on September 5, 2017.
“Palestinians are 12 million in number, and stuck in institutional paralysis. The nearly 25-year-old Oslo Peace Process successfully, and sadly, facilitated Israel’s strategic desire to utilize the age-old divide and conquer strategy to reduce Palestinians to disparate fragments, each with their own challenge to merely survive. It’s time to reset that reality and view the Palestinians for what they are, physically fragmented, politically divided, but a whole people nonetheless, from Ramallah to Santiago.”
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The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of The Jerusalem Fund.
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