Anziska, SE; (2022) The Palestinians and Arab-Israeli Diplomacy, 1967-1991. In: Siniver, Asaf, (ed.) The Routledge Companion to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. (pp. 122-135). Routledge: London, UK.

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Considering the Palestinian role in Arab-Israeli diplomacy from 1967 until the formal onset of the “peace process” in the early 1990s, this chapter highlights the central paradox in a longstanding struggle for recognition. Just as Palestinians were gaining international attention as a political question requiring a diplomatic solution – marked by acceptance of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Europe, the United States, and eventually Israel – on the ground, the possibility of a resolution in territorial terms was narrowing considerably. As Palestinians successfully organized around a unified political message of independent statehood in the 1970s, the possible space in which their national home could be built was fast disappearing under Israeli sovereignty. The political consequences of Egyptian-Israeli peace, coupled with the PLO’s expulsion from Lebanon, shifted the Palestinian struggle to the occupied territories as diplomatic efforts yielded limited political rights. This left a national movement disconnected from the successful fulfilment of its statist project, a challenge that continues to shape the Palestinian struggle.

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