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Q&A With Robert M. Danin on Palestinian Statehood

January 9, 2011
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Next week, Robert M. Danin will answer readers' questions Palestinian statehood. Submit a question.

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The Palestinian Spring?
Robert M. Danin

For better or worse, this week’s unity agreement between Fatah and Hamas would never have occurred had the ongoing Arab uprisings not changed both parties’ political fortunes.

In "A Third Way to Palestine," an article in the new issue of Foreign Affairs, CFR Senior Fellow Robert M. Danin argues that Palestinan nationalism has gone through two stages: armed struggle and negotiations. Now Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has initiated a third, pragmatic stage of Palestinian nationalism by building institutions and counting down to statehood. Danin writes that Fayyad's vision is a promising one, and Israel should help him achieve it.

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