The Plo as a methodological problem for Israeli researchers, 1985–1993

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ID12533374
AuthorsMenachem Klein (0000-0003-2677-0954, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume20
Issue2
Pages164-173
Publication date1993-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBritish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1353-0194 • E-ISSN: 1469-3542
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13530199308705578
OpenAlexW1978738774
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited3

Israeli academics disagree with respect to the scope of the change that has transpired within the PLO. Proponents of the first approach are convinced that leaders in the PLO mainstream have indeed changed the organization's basic orientation. Advocates of the second orientation, on the other hand, contend that the putative transition does not represent anything more than the potential for real revision of historic objectives. In this article, I outline the broad theoretical framework within which this interpretative argument has taken place. After elaborating the theoretical framework, I propose a methodological direction which differs from the one traced by these two opposite approaches. I claim that an arbitration mechanism that negotiates a middle ground between the fundamental and operative ideology has developed within the PLO. These three dimensions exist within the PLO at one and the same time; and since its crystallization in the mid‐1980s, the middle ground has become the dimension that dominates the PLO's activities

Arbitration · Argument (complex analysis · Dimension (graph theory · Economics · Epistemology · Ideology · Law and economics · Mainstream · Mechanism (biology · Orientation (vector space · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Computer Science · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Mathematics · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Philosophy

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