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Albert Aghazarian
Albert Aghazarian, 52, is a history lecturer at the Palestinians’ largest university, Birzeit. For him, the horror of the Sept. 11 attacks was compounded by the impression that Palestinians celebrated the deadly acts. He notes that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat condemned the attacks and organized candlelight vigils in support of America. But the damage was done. An Armenian Christian, Aghazarian also identifies himself as a Palestinian.
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“On the morning of Sept. 11, we received four European consuls at the university who had walked around the roadblock and come to show support for access to the school. That afternoon, I was driving in Jerusalem when the news came over my radio. It was like from another world. And then the early reports said Palestinians were involved. I saw one of the consuls [again], and he said that if it was true that Palestinians were involved, then the whole cause is lost. So in one day I went from feeling a moving moment of international support to feeling like I was in the culprit’s cage.
Israel is using Sept. 11 to show that now, from their angle, the world gets a flavor of what they’ve been passing through.
Of course, the comparison is different, but Israel is using this. They have been associating Arafat with [Osama] bin La
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The Palestinian national movement has been in disarray for a long time. The failings of its political leadership have been particularly exposed by the Benjamin Netanyahu-Donald Trump alliance, unable to respond to paradigmatic changes to the status quo. Menachem Klein’s Arafat and Abbas: Portraits of Political Leadership in a State Postponed is an introduction to the centrality of leadership in the Palestinian struggle, critically examining the complex legacy of Yasser Arafat alongside the managerial elements of his second-rate successor Mahmud Abbas, incumbent president of the Palestinian Authority (PA).
Klein argues that failures of political leadership (a quality not routinely found among the fighters and activists of the Palestine Liberation Organization/Fatah party) have perpetuated the statelessness of the Palestinian people. While he thinks the occupation, the lack of Arab unity (coupled with its withering support for the Palestinian cause), and the partisan engagement of the US have all posed challenges, it has been an internal challenge – this is a people without a leader – that has been the primary reason for continued statelessness.
Klein provides rich insights into the psychological makeup of his two principals, the personal inclinations that have contributed t
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