Palestinian dead end highlights the right of return
By Al-Shabaka
Al-Shabaka is an independent non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and foster public debate on Palestinian human rights and self-determination within the framework of international law.
This policy brief is authored by Randa Farah, a Palestinian professor of anthropology who has written on Palestinian popular memory and reconstructions of identity.
Like a broken record perpetually playing a deeply disturbing refrain, the peace process has scratched on despite missed deadlines, threats, and promises, with intermittent halts. None of the parties involved -- mainly the Palestine Liberation Organization/Palestinian Authority, Israel, and the United States -- has seemed to be able to survive without them.
But the consequences to the occupied, dispossessed, and exiled Palestinian people have been disastrous, and their termination has been long overdue. It is worth drawing some of these lessons to map a different road moving forward.
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