ABSTRACT
One of the outcomes of the Arab nations’ struggle for independence from Western powers during the first half of the twentieth century was the division of the Arab National Movement into sub-ideologies, and, as a result, the establishment of separate nation states with their respective specific ideologies. At the start of the twenty-first century, it looks as though this split did not end with separate Arab national entities. The Palestinian National Movement is likely to witness yet another split: in spite of common Palestinian ideological and emotional obligation and commitment, the Palestinians now face quite a number of political and geographical constraints, which may lead to the emergence of several new national Palestinian movements. Perhaps the first indication of such a trend is the political behaviour of Israeli Arab members of the 15th Israeli Knesset (the Israeli parliament), who have demonstrated since the October 2000 violence inside sovereign Israeli territory a new kind of Palestinian nationalism: Israeli Palestinian, unique to them.
