Last February, the Egyptian-American intellectual Hussein Abu Bakr Mansour wrote an article

in which he considered the possibility of a new idea of Palestinian nationalism.

The IDF was destroying Hamas, the remnant of the Palestinian authorities' legitimacy

and trust among the Palestinians was already weak and was decaying at an even accelerated rate.

The grotesque complicity of UNRWA in Hamas' crimes might yet deal enough of a blow to the

international Palestine human rights complex that, back then, Hussein could allow

himself to hope that the old idea of Palestine might be susceptible to being replaced

by something different, something more constructive. A consequence of Hamas activating a series

of events that led to war and defeat and destruction might then also lead

to an opportunity to refound Palestinian nationalism on healthier grounds. That was the subject

of some writing that Hussein published just over one year ago. One year later, after watching

Palestinians in Gaza cheering the remains of the Bebas children,

murdered, and then kept as monstrous ransom, Hussein recently revised his own thinking

about the possibility of a renewed Palestinian nationalism, and in light of all that's transpired,

has come to a very different conclusion altogether.

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Jonathan Silver. Hussein Abu Bakr Mansour is a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of

of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy. He is a contributor to Mosaic. His substack, where both of the

essays we're focusing on today were originally published is the Abrahamic critique and digest.

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