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Palestinian Diplomacy: Past and Present

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The Palestinian people have gained and achieved many of their goals and national aspirations through negotiations and diplomacy. A significant breakthrough in Palestinian diplomacy was achieved when the late Yasser Arafat shook hands with the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the White House to celebrate the signing of the Oslo agreement on September 13, 1993. But the most significant diplomatic developments were carried out by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, which were cultivated in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly’s resolution to recognize Palestine as nonmember observer state on November 29, 2012. Although Palestinian diplomacy has not succeeded in ending the Israeli occupation and establishing a Palestinian independent and sovereign state, it is still considered to be the right step on the long road of liberation and statehood.

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  1. Department of Political Science, Al-Azhar University-Gaza, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestine

    Mkhaimar Abusada

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  1. Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Gülistan Gürbey

  2. Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität (FU) Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Sabine Hofmann

  3. Mustafa Barzani Section for Kurdish Studies, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

    Ferhad Ibrahim Seyder

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Abusada, M. (2017). Palestinian Diplomacy: Past and Present. In: Gürbey, G., Hofmann, S., Ibrahim Seyder, F. (eds) Between State and Non-State. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60181-0_11

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