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Palestinian Zionism

Palestinian Zionism PALESTINIAN ZIONISM BY SADIK J. AL-AZM Damaskus A basic maxim of Marxist socio-political analysis states that similar infrastructural conditions tend to produce similar superstructural phenomena. Some of us who have been in close and protracted contact with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), (particularly with its political militants, higher cadres and more outspoken ideologues), certainly have sensed something of the importance of this maxim, not as an abstract principle but as a con- cretely lived series of organically developing situations, ideas and experiences. I am referring, here, to the Palestinian comparisons drawn between the modern Jewish and Palestinian diasporas and the superstructural (particularly political) phenomena generated by them. Prior to the Arab-Israeli October War of 1973, informal discus- sions in the PLO often apologized for the multiplicity of Palestinian armed organizations by arguing that the very similar multiplicity of Zionist armed organizations did not hinder the Zionist Move- ment from achieving its aim of establishing the state of Israel. The same apology went on to argue, analogically, that: (a) The Palesti- nian resistance organizations could go on functioning under the PLO umbrella, regardless of their political squabbles, ideological disputes, institutional rivalries, incompatible alliances and allegiances, pretty much the way http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Die Welt des Islams Brill

Palestinian Zionism

Al-Azm, Sadik J.
Die Welt des Islams , Volume 28 (1-4): 90 – Jan 1, 1988
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Brill
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© 1988 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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PALESTINIAN ZIONISM BY SADIK J. AL-AZM Damaskus A basic maxim of Marxist socio-political analysis states that similar infrastructural conditions tend to produce similar superstructural phenomena. Some of us who have been in close and protracted contact with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), (particularly with its political militants, higher cadres and more outspoken ideologues), certainly have sensed something of the importance of this maxim, not as an abstract principle but as a con- cretely lived series of organically developing situations, ideas and experiences. I am referring, here, to the Palestinian comparisons drawn between the modern Jewish and Palestinian diasporas and the superstructural (particularly political) phenomena generated by them. Prior to the Arab-Israeli October War of 1973, informal discus- sions in the PLO often apologized for the multiplicity of Palestinian armed organizations by arguing that the very similar multiplicity of Zionist armed organizations did not hinder the Zionist Move- ment from achieving its aim of establishing the state of Israel. The same apology went on to argue, analogically, that: (a) The Palesti- nian resistance organizations could go on functioning under the PLO umbrella, regardless of their political squabbles, ideological disputes, institutional rivalries, incompatible alliances and allegiances, pretty much the way

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