The Palestinian National Identity between Euro-Zionist Occupation Attempts to Erase it and Arabic Resistenc

Abstract

The current research aims to explain the vital components and elements of the Palestinian, as well as the seriousness of the colonial influences on the elements of the Arab-Palestinian identity, geographical, historical, social, cultural, and moral values, past and present. To achieve this, the researchers used the descriptive analytical methodology and the historical methodology. This study aims to figure out the impact of the Zionist European occupation on the elements of the Palestinian geographical, historical, political, economic, cultural and civilizational identity. This is to be highlighted by examining the events related to the direct and indirect European activities in Palestine. The study also aims to figure out the Zionist activities aimed at obliterating the Palestinian identity and Judaizing the land of Palestine and making it the home of Jews as per the global Zionist project. It also aims to highlight the Palestinian and Arab role in confronting and resisting that project, preserving the Palestinian identity, and developing the factors of sustaining its existence and continuity. The research came up with the following results: -The Palestinian national identity was formed according to three growing components of identity: the national, the Palestinian, the Arab and the Islamic. Whoever thinks that he is able to shape the Palestinian national identity in isolation from the other components, his efforts will inevitably be doomed to failure in advance. - It falls on Palestinian and Arab theoretical and field studies to redefine the Palestinian national identity dimensional space. -according to a threel is the one that The first dimension a dedicates the national Palestinian identity as one whole unit socially, geographically and politically in a way that ensures the inseparability of Palestinian people in 1948 occupied lands and Gaza Strip, or the citizens displaced as a result who were forcibly of the Zionist occupation, whom some studies call diaspora, as an analogy with the Jews. This analogy should not be there as it enforces the occupational goals of the Zionists. This ultimately leads to further fragmentation of the Palestinian identity. - The decline of the Arab and Islamic efforts in supporting the Palestinian identity at the expense of the increasing opportunities of the Zionist Entity for normalization with many Arab regimes in light of the successive crises of the Arab regimes that had witnessed drastic decline of Arab Nationalism. - The Zionist entity will not stop robbing the elements of the Palestinian national identity and Judaizing- Palestine unless it finds a never stopping Palestinian resistance. - The study showed that cultural pluralism in the components of the Palestinian national identity played a prominent role in its stability and preservation.