The Palestinian Declaration of Independence of 1988: An Analysis

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International 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.