The colonial idea that built the Palestinian Authority
JVL Introduction
The hope at the time of the Oslo Accords was that the newly established Palestinian Authority would pave the way for a fully independent Palestinian state alongside Israel within five years.
But it was never going to deliver such an outcome. It was rather, as Dr Tariq Dana argues, an inter-elite accommodation between the Palestine Liberation Organization, Israel, and the latter’s Western partners.
In effect the Palestinian liberation struggle was traded for a limited form of self-rule.
For Dana it is clear that “The advent of the PA further led to the demise of the PLO, which ended the leadership’s representation of the Palestinian diaspora outside the Oslo-created cantons, and ultimately subordinated and coopted the Palestinian national movement.”
Here he tells the story.
This article was originally published by +972 Magazine on Sun 25 Jul 2021. Read the original here.
The colonial idea that built the Palestinian Authority
Israel tried for years to create a body that would control Palestinians on its behalf. It was the liberation movement’s leaders that helped it succeed.
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