Back to the Future: The Great March of Return
NOVANEWS
by Haidar Eid
Th Great March of Return – which began on March 30 and has not yet ended – has shuffled the cards and brought crucial questions to the fore regarding the essence of the Palestinian cause as well as the status of the Gaza Strip. Despite the bleak reality of life in Gaza, which Israel’s siege will, with international and local collusion, soon render uninhabitable, a new awareness is emerging.
This new awareness is undercutting the long-dominant policies of the current right-wing leadership and the superficial "opposition" represented by what I call the Stalinist left – that is, both the Popular and Democratic Fronts for the Liberation of Palestine, the Palestinian People's Party, the Palestinian Democratic Union and, to some extent, the Palestinian National In...