Palestinian elites abandoned pan-Arabism after experiencing exclusion from power.

Evidence

Worst of all, in these countries there was developing a strong sense of separate nationality with a growing and maturing political e´lite. The Palestinian e´lite saw their own contemporaries enjoying the fruits of power which were denied to them because they lacked a state of their own and were not admitted to full citizenship in the countries where they had found refuge. In these circumstances Palestinians began to think less of pan-Arabism and more of constituting an entity of their own in which they would be masters, and could enjoy the same political opportunities as their contemporaries in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 933

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Exclusion from citizenship drove Palestinians to abandon pan-Arabism for their own state (similarity 0.91)
• Pan-Arabism’s adoption let Arab states hold Palestinian territories and keep refugees stateless. (similarity 0.85)
• Palestinians were denied citizenship and work rights in most Arab states. (similarity 0.81)
• The Nazis’ fall and the Holocaust revelations combined to weaken Arab positions on Palestine. (similarity 0.81)
• Artificially drawn Arab states acquired real solidity through entrenched elites (similarity 0.81)
• Pan-Arabism’s own logic undercut the moral force of Arab claims against Israel. (similarity 0.80)
• The 1967 defeat freed Arab states to outsource the anti-Israel struggle to Palestinians (similarity 0.79)
• By the 1970s Arab states were politically diverging despite cultural affinity (similarity 0.79)
• Arab leaders grew candid about national goals while ideology lagged behind. (similarity 0.79)
• Pan-Arabism survives as public orthodoxy long after leaders abandoned it (similarity 0.79)
• Soviet policy actively discouraged pan-Arabism in favor of separate state relations (similarity 0.79)
• Oil wealth unevenly distributed fractured Arab solidarity into separate state agendas. (similarity 0.79)
• The 1967 defeat freed Arab states to support Palestinian self-determination. (similarity 0.78)
• Modern Middle Eastern nationalism was constructed by force and education in the twentieth century. (similarity 0.78)