Summary
Palestinian participant in the Palestine Strategy Study Group and author of Chapter 4 of For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, “Can Palestinians Regain the Initiative for Ending the Occupation?”, arguing that Palestinians have more strategic cards than they think and must regain the initiative through national unity, PLO reform, “smart” resistance and, if Israel refuses a genuine two-state outcome, a shift to a single-state goal (For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, PDF p.77-88).
Details
- In 2008 Hawwash chaired a Birmingham meeting at which Palestinian visitors from Ramallah and Clare Short MP spoke about the West Bank and Gaza (PDF p.77).
- He was one of only three participants from Europe in the Palestine Strategy Study Group’s first workshop at the Dead Sea in 2007, convened by the Oxford Research Group (PDF p.83).
- His chapter presents the PSSG report Regaining the Initiative: Palestinian Strategic Options to End Israeli Occupation (August 2008) and endorses its conclusion that “Palestinians have more strategic cards than they think, and Israel has fewer” (PDF p.87).
Related pages
For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, Palestine Strategy Study Group, Oxford Research Group, Mustafa Barghouti