Abstract
This paper seeks to chronicle the history of the globalization of the Palestinian struggle based on its organizational self-descriptions (pamphlets, newspapers, and magazines). It first details the pre-global phase, when the liberatory horizon of the Palestinian struggle was still submerged within Nasserism and pan-Arab nationalism. This period extends until 1967, even though there were a number of noteworthy attempts to globalize the struggle already in the mid-1960s. That includes the opening of the Fatah bureau in Algiers in 1963 which resulted in forging ties with other liberation struggles (and friendly governments) based there. Then on January 1, 1965, Fatah engineered the relaunch of the Palestinian revolution with the "firing of the first bullet". These were part of a concerted effort to globalize the Palestinian struggle before the watershed moment of the June 1967 war, an important phase that has not yet been explored by the scholarly literature. The June war finally brought the Palestinian factions to the fore like never before, setting off a flurry of publishing activity on the part of the guerilla factions hitherto unprecedented. I finally move on to the main part of the paper which explores the main organs of the Palestinian factions, namely al-Hadaf (PFLP) and ath-Thawra al-Filastiniyyah (Fatah), as the basis for charting the semantic forms their global imaginations took. While Thomas Chamberlin undertakes a tremendous task in this regard, his book only surveys a highly selective part of that literature.
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