Did a Palestine Spring take place? The lost decade in PalestineThe 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…
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Palestine within the unfolding regional order in the Middle East
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Palestine within the unfolding regional order in the Middle East How have regional dynamics and domestic pathologies since 2010 affected (i.e., constrained or delimited) Palestinian reconciliation and rapprochement between Fatah and Hamas? This article concludes that the interplay of systemic and domestic factors has notably set the two rival movements on distinctly different trajectories of…