Palestinian Situation: the Crisis, Reconciliation and the Future of the National Movement

It is a mistake to deal with the Palestinian crisis as merely the latest in a series of consequences experienced by the Palestinian arena since the Hamas victory in legislative elections. This is a crisis with deep roots in Palestinian political history; it is not possible to reach a correct reading of the current Palestinian moment, and the transformation witnessed by Palestinian society and trends, without reading the historical context of the emergence of both Fatah and the Palestinian Islamic trend.