Summary
The Palestinian movement whose rise to prominence and 2006 election victory Makdisi treats as a product of the Oslo Accords’ failure: it had no part in Palestinian Authority corruption or in Oslo’s discourse, and it rehabilitated a genuinely Palestinian language of self-determination and national liberation (Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, PDF p.134).
Details
- After Hamas’s election victory in 2006, Israel suspended the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority, in contravention of the agreements, starving the PA of funds (PDF p.132).
- Part of what enabled Hamas to rise as a viable alternative to Fateh in 2006 was its lack of involvement in PA corruption, its lack of complicity in the misleading discourses of Oslo, and “its canny rehabilitation of a genuinely Palestinian language of self-determination and national liberation” that the secular parties, above all Fateh, had originally expressed in the 1960s and 1970s and progressively abandoned (PDF p.134).
- The momentum of the Palestinian struggle is described as shifting away from both Hamas and Fateh, and from the occupied territories in general, to Palestinians living in Israel and in the global diaspora (PDF p.137; developed in the book’s Coda, not yet read).
Related pages
Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation, Palestinian Authority, Fateh, Oslo Accords, Self-determination