Summary
The telos of Sayegh’s history: the fifth stage of the Palestinian response, in which after 1948 dispossession and sixteen years of exile the Palestinian people seized the initiative, created the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1964, and took liberation of the homeland as the pathway to its future and the vindication of past sacrifices.
Details
- The people of Palestine knows that the pathway to its future is the liberation of its homeland; in that belief, after sixteen years of dispersion and exile, it created the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1964 (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.19 / printed p.224).
- Only in the liberation of Palestine, spearheaded by Palestinians prepared to pay the price, can the supreme sacrifices of past generations be vindicated and the hopes of living Palestinians become reality (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.19 / printed p.224).
- In the epilogue the cause is made indivisible: as a colonial venture that bloomed as colonialism was fading, the settler-state is a challenge to all anti-colonial peoples in Asia and Africa, for the cause of anti-colonialism and liberation is one and indivisible (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.19-20 / printed p.224-225).
- The earlier stages supply its justification in Sayegh’s formula: rights undefended are rights surrendered, and the inter-War generation lost its patrimony not without fighting (Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, PDF p.19 / printed p.224).
Related pages
Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization, Territorial Expansion, Zionism