Summary
The author of Chapter 6, “Palestine in Tahrir”, of Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, which reads the Arab uprisings through Ghassan Kanafani’s framework of the Palestinian movement’s three separate enemies and argues no Palestinian liberation is possible without complete Arab liberation (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1220-1358).
Details
- The chapter’s test case is Gaza: Egypt’s Rafah policy under Mubarak, its opening after his fall, and the uprisings’ confirmation of Kanafani’s framework in their setbacks (lines 1294-1358).
- Palestinian responses to the uprisings are treated as decided by each faction’s position in a complex matrix of camps — Islamist-nationalist, nationalist-secular and leftist — rather than by a single Palestinian position (lines 1312-1325).
Related pages
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Ghassan Kanafani, Hamas, Fateh, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine