ABSTRACT
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is Israel's most intimate and permanent enemy, so it is especially paradoxical to realize just how deeply it has been shaped by Zionism, the Jewish national movement. Both the Jewish and Palestinian national movements have to a highly unusual extent looked to international backing in general and to the United Nations in particular. When Palestinians reach the point that they justify their anti-Israel ideology with reference to the Bible, they have truly become the Zionists' double, or what the Germans call a Doppelganger–an evil twin and nemesis. Although some aspects of Palestinian Zionism go back earlier in the twentieth century, most of them date from after 1967. Zionists have mastered the practices they first invented and implemented; if in the near term, borrowing from Zion strengthens the Palestinians, ultimately it limits their capabilities. This limitation has become especially evident after Israel and the PLO signed the Oslo Accord in September 1993.
