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The Palestinian national movement reached a dead-end and came close to disintegration at the beginning of the present century. The struggle for power after the death of Yasser Arafat in 2004 signaled the end of a path toward statehood prepared by the Oslo Accords a decade before. The reasons for the failure of the movement are deeply rooted in modern Palestinian history. As'ad Ghanem analyzes the internal and external events that unfolded as the Palestinian national movement became a "failed national movement," marked by internecine struggle and collapse, the failure to secure establishment of a separate state and achieve a stable peace with Israel, and the movement's declining stature within the Arab world and the international community.

Arab-Israeli conflict. --- Nationalism --- Palestinian Arabs --- Israel-Arab conflicts --- Israel-Palestine conflict --- Israeli-Arab conflict --- Israeli-Palestinian conflict --- Jewish-Arab relations --- Palestine-Israel conflict --- Palestine problem (1948- ) --- Palestinian-Israeli conflict --- Arab Palestinians --- Arabs --- Arabs in Palestine --- Palestinians --- Ethnology --- Politics and government --- History --- Arafat, Yasir, --- Abū ʻAmmār, --- ʻArafāt, Yāsir ʻAbd al-Raʼūf, --- Arafat, Yasser Abdurraouf, --- Arafat, --- Arafat, Yassir, --- ʻArafāt, Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Raʼūf, --- Arafat, Jassir, --- Arafat, Jasser, --- Alafate, --- Arafat, Mohammed Abdel-Raouf, --- ערפאת, יאסר --- ערפת, יאסיר, --- ערפת, יאסר --- عرافات، ياسر، --- عرفات، ياسر --- عرفات، ياسر، --- ياسر، عرفات --- Arafat, I︠A︡sir,

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This book offers an analysis on contemporary Israeli democracy, examining in particular society and politics from the perspectives of the different ethnic groups outside of the Ashkenazi mainstream. The book explores the political expressions of the secondary groups in Israel (Mizrahim, Religious, Russians and Palestinian-Arab) and how these groups where treated by the Ashkinazim as a threat to its hegemony over the state. Looking at the instability created by the struggle of these marginal groups against the state, and the discrimination policy practiced by the Ashkenazi 'hegemonic

Ethnicity --- Minorities --- Group identity --- Political aspects --- Political activity --- Israel --- Ethnic relations --- Political aspects.