By Juliane Hammer
Within the decade following the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, a few 100,000 diasporic Palestinians lower back to the West financial institution and Gaza. between them have been kids and teenagers who have been born in exile and whose feel of Palestinian identification used to be formed now not via lived event yet really throughout the transmission and new version of stories, photographs, and background. for that reason, "returning" to the place of origin that had by no means truly been their domestic awarded demanding situations and disappointments for those younger Palestinians, who discovered their lifeways and values occasionally at odds with these in their new buddies within the West financial institution and Gaza. This unique ethnography documents the studies of Palestinians born in exile who've emigrated to the Palestinian place of origin. Juliane Hammer interviews teenagers among the a long time of sixteen and 35 to benefit how their Palestinian id has been stricken by dwelling in quite a few Arab nations or the USA after which relocating to the West financial institution and Gaza. Their responses underscore how a lot the event of dwelling outdoors of Palestine has turn into vital to the Palestinian nationwide personality, while Palestinians retain an overpowering feel of belonging to each other as a humans.
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Smith has remarked: ‘‘Palestinians, stateless and living by their wits, have been among the leading capitalists of the Middle East’’ (P. A. Smith 1986a, 23). They are affected by stateless- 20 palestinians born in exile ness, although to a lesser degree than poor refugees, and have been major financial supporters of the PLO and Palestinian educational institutions. The richer part of the Palestinian diaspora can be expected to contribute to the creation of an economically viable Palestinian state whether or not they return to Palestine themselves (see Mustafa 1996, 5).
During the 1967 war, Palestinians fled in a similar pattern. This time many of them became second-time refugees. Besides during actual war times, Palestinian migration occurred because of political persecution, economic pressure, and the forcible eviction of political activists. With the evolution of the Palestinian national movement and the formation of a Palestinian national awareness, combined with resistance to the Israeli occupation, Israeli pressure to undermine and destroy Palestinian resistance increased.
The Discourse on Palestinian Identity In order to discuss ‘‘definitions’’ of Palestinian identity, it is useful to look first at the emergence of Palestinian identity as a scholarly concept. Parallel to the historical development of Palestinian national identities, we find reflections on the issue in several texts. ’’ It argues that Israeli Arabs had acquired a sense of identity as part of the Palestinian people and that the ‘‘Arabs of Palestine’’ perceived themselves as people in a particular territory with a common ‘‘pattern of speech’’ and a, however brief, shared historical experience (K.
