ABSTRACT
On September 23rd, 2011 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the United Nations General Assembly. The assumption that Darwish moved beyond the question of nationalism to take on humanist universal concerns is based on an understanding that anti-colonial nationalism does not have a humanist component. On the other hand, the Palestinian Authority (PA) manipulates a new humanist nationalism to legitimize the characterization of Fanon's first nationalist ideology, in other words, the desire for a state within the parameters of the colonial condition. The "we love life" in Darwish's poem comes at a moment of reflection on the period of time between the killing of one Palestinian and the next. The PA's initial attempt to gain member state status in 2011 failed to gain full approval from all United Nations Security Council members, for the US threatened a veto.
