Who Is a Palestinian?

Winning a war can prove as taxing as losing one. The swift 1967 Israeli conquest of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip—all that had remained of Palestinian non-Israeli territory after the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948—placed Israel into the position of a man who has just managed to catch a bear. After 18 years of subjugation and dispersion, the Arabs of Palestine, most of whom had been living in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, now were becoming somewhat of an internal Israeli problem. For...