Did a Palestine Spring take place in the wake of the Arab Spring movement? The lost decade in Palestine

Did a Palestine Spring take place? The lost decade in Palestine

The Arab Spring movement, in its initial state, delivered to Palestinians a revolutionary stimulus and a strategic window to challenge domestic politics. In retrospect, however, the Palestine Spring proved to be short-lived and ineffective in achieving the demanded politico-economic reforms and national unification of Fatah and Hamas.

To explain this outcome of the Palestine Spring, the article suggests two main factors, among others: (1) the fiasco of the national movement / project and as a result the lack of a hierarchical and organizational role model for the social movement to emulate and (2) the occupational context of the Palestinian case that absorbs public discomfort and decreases the possibility of a mass social movement (a far-reaching Palestine Spring) against historical leadership.

https://doi.org/10.26650/TurkJHist.2018.384983.

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Did a Palestine Spring take place? The lost decade in Palestine
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Did a Palestine Spring take place? The lost decade in Palestine
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Two major factors caused a short-lived and ineffective Palestine Spring: (1) the fiasco of the national movement / project and as a result the lack of a hierarchical and organizational role model for the social movement to emulate and (2) the occupational context of the Palestinian case that absorbs public discomfort and decreases.
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