The Palestinian Declaration of Independence of 1988

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Region: Near East Near Orient grade: 1.7 University of Haifa language: English abstract: This paper aims to analyze the past present and potential future of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence of 1988 that is the historical background to it (past) its specific content (present) and the political consequences it brought along (future). The Israeli declaration of statehood (1948) was preceded by decades-long preparations on part of the Zionist movement. But the Palestinians also looked back on four decades of war expulsion and dispossession as well as military and political resistance.