Of course it is a major challenge, but we believe our plan to build an independent palestinian state on the palestinian territories occupied in 1967 is in keeping with the political framework of our international relations, since it is the basic objective of the peace process. Ending the occupation, establishing the state.” the plan declared that it would work toward establishing “an independent arab state with full sovereignty over all of the territory of the west bank and gaza strip in the 1967 borders. Despite his numerous accomplishments, fayyad was simply no longer viable from the standpoint of palestinian domestic politics. This paper argues that fayyadism does not, in fact, constitute a radical new approach to ending the occupation or liberating palestinians Rather, palestinian agency remains contingent on the same basic dynamics as it has since the beginning of the oslo process.
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