Article
"The 'Right to Have Rights': Partition and Palestinian Self-Determination"
Journal of Palestine Studies, vo. XLVII, No. 1 (Autumn 2017)
(2017)
Abstract
This paper reexamines the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and the
extent to which a viable two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was
ever truly possible. It argues that the history of the fifty years reinforces the claim that a State is central to any attempt to fight erasure and ensure “the right to have rights,” as Hannah Arendt put
it, but it also shows that such an entity needs to be elevated above the nation, than made subservient to it if it is to protect the rights of Palestinians all those living on the land of Palestine.
Keywords
- self determination,
- Hannah Arendt,
- Partition,
- Israel-Palestine
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall November, 2017
Citation Information
Leila Farsakh. ""The 'Right to Have Rights': Partition and Palestinian Self-Determination"" Journal of Palestine Studies, vo. XLVII, No. 1 (Autumn 2017) (2017) ISSN: 0377-919X Available at: http://works.bepress.com/leila_farsakh/20/