Palestinian Social Movement

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th legal mandates- scripted but un enforced, such as Resolutions 252 as well as Resolution 278- display Israel’s non-compliance to international law and reprobates the ability to fall within the traditional standards of a democratic nation.2
While Zionism originates in ideology as a national movement for the return of Jewish people to their historical homeland- paired with the aims of restoring Jewish sovereignty, political Zionism takes on the character of the liberal nationalist movement which swept through Europe during the 19th century. 3 Liberal nationalism aspired two basic goals: liberation from foreign rule, and national unity in countries that had been partitioned into many political entities.4 Zionism synthesized these two goals of liberation and unity by aiming to free the Jews from hostile and oppressive alien rule and to reestablish Jewish unity by gathering Jewish exiles from the four corners of the world to the Jewish homeland- or the Land of Israel.
From this portrayal stems a cry of origination based on historical necessity; however a moral high ground of anti-Semitism- with its culmination through the Holocaust, enacted a second reasoning. In spite of its clear retort to injustice upon inception, Israel falls prey to the very same consequences of oppressive injustice, in that while its ideology comes as a response to injustice served to Jews, in reality this very ideology recreates injustice for others.5 Restitution and reconciliation are topics of the peace talks, and while they go mentioned remain unconstituted. In great part this stemmed from an inability to recognize the material, social, international, and political ramifications of an institutionalized system aimed at preserving a prescribed goal, regardless of the means. To satisfy the Zionist agenda then, normative conceptions of justice, equality, and freedom suffered dilution, much as the imperialist structure utilized exploitation hidden within a framew...