The art of waiting

 A Palestinian national project pretending to be a state and imitating Israeli rituals of statehood, but without a state. But where is liberation, wonders Azmi Bishara

Whether Oslo threw the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) project into crisis or whether a crisis in that project led to Oslo is the substance of one of those chicken-and-egg type discussions on complex social phenomena. It is clear, however, that this project did not emerge from Oslo intact or healthy. There came a period when Arafat’s kaffiya covered up much more than his head, and after his death the Palestinian Authority (PA) had nothing left to conceal the bitter facts. Continue reading “The art of waiting”