TY - JOUR

T1 - It’s Nakba, Not a Party

T2 - Re-Stating the (Continued) Legacy of the Oslo Accords

AU - Sen, Somdeep

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - Two decades later, how should we conceptualize the relevance of the Oslo Accords today? This article reconstitutes our understanding of the Accords through three parameters and purports that the legacy of the Interim Agreement is one that oscillates between what it has failed to achieve with regard to the Palestinian quest for statehood and what it continues to do as a mechanism influencing the “brand” Palestinian politics that can be practiced (uninhibitedly) within the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt). In this way, charting the path for future research, this article concludes that any subsequent studies on Palestinian politics and political behavior would need to account for both what the Accords has not done and what it continues to do.

AB - Two decades later, how should we conceptualize the relevance of the Oslo Accords today? This article reconstitutes our understanding of the Accords through three parameters and purports that the legacy of the Interim Agreement is one that oscillates between what it has failed to achieve with regard to the Palestinian quest for statehood and what it continues to do as a mechanism influencing the “brand” Palestinian politics that can be practiced (uninhibitedly) within the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt). In this way, charting the path for future research, this article concludes that any subsequent studies on Palestinian politics and political behavior would need to account for both what the Accords has not done and what it continues to do.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - liberation

KW - Nakba

KW - Oslo Accords

KW - Palestine

KW - resistance

M3 - Journal article

VL - 37

SP - 161

EP - 176

JO - Arab Studies Quarterly

JF - Arab Studies Quarterly

SN - 0271-3519

IS - 2

M1 - 2

ER -