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THE AUTUMN 2011 issue features Alain Gresh’s essay “Reflections on the Meaning of Palestine.” The longtime editor-in-chief and current deputy-director of the French monthly Le Monde diplomatique reflects on why Palestine has been widely embraced as a “universal cause.”
Margret Johannsen studies the use of ultra-short-range rockets by Palestinian militant factions in the Gaza Strip as part of the overall dynamic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and as a tool employed within internal Palestinian rivalries.
In “Letter from the UN: The Palestinian Bid for Membership,” Graham Usher considers the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member state at the United Nations the latest stage in its “alternative peace strategy.” He writes this initiative was “born of the collapse of the U.S.-sponsored Oslo peace process.”
Writing about Holocaust denial, which is on the rise in Arab countries since the 1980s, Gilbert Achcar explores it in contradistinction to Western Holocaust denial.
Laura Robson writes about the Greek Orthodox Church in Palestine. The largest of the Christian denominations, is has long been troubled by a conflict (“controversy”) between its all-Greek hierarchy and its Arab laity hinging on Arab demands for a larger role in church affairs.
In a historical piece, Bedross Der Matossian, discusses the Armenians of Palestine, for whom “the three decades of the Mandate were probably the most momentous in their fifteen hundred-year presence in the country.”
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