Geopolitical realpolitik shifted the dominant Palestinian framing from settler-colonial to national-conflict

Evidence

It was the PLO’s shift toward the politics of statehood in the 1970s that expedited the emergence of the paradigm that the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinian national movement is a national conflict. The realpolitik of the international and Arab circumstances that arose after the 1973 War, which was opened by Egypt and Syria with the explicit goal of liberating Egyptian and Syrian lands Israel occupied in 1967 (and not Palestinian lands overtaken in 1948 or 1967), persuaded the dominant factions within the PLO to seek statehood in the territories occupied in 1967 (Gresh 1988). Starting with the PLO’s “10-point program” in 1974 that called for the establishment of an independent national authority “over every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated” (Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations 1974) and continuing through the 1993 Oslo Accords, the PLO sought to achieve what is known as the “two-state solution” - a Palestinian state in 6 See R. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 450

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s central question about whether external/threat dynamics reshape group ideology — an elite paradigm shift driven by regional realpolitik rather than ideological conviction. — connects to: Palestinian scholars pioneered settler-colonial theory in the 1960s — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 449