A Short Course on Palestine / Module 3

Lecture Series

The Palestinian resistance movement is followed through major strategic shifts. The lecture compares the demand for liberation of all Palestine with the later move toward a two-state position.

Learning objectives

  • Trace changes in Palestinian resistance movement strategy during the 1970s.
  • Compare liberation of all Palestine with the later two-state position described in the lecture.

Transcript excerpt

Excerpt from the lesson transcript

The Palestinian resistance movement had advocated the liberation of all of Palestine. It had advocated a secular democratic state for everybody in Palestinians, Israelis, Jews, Muslims, and so on. And then rapidly, by 1974, it had moved to a two-state position, saying, we will take a state wherever we can liberate territory.