While some political science scholarship and commentary on Palestinian politics engages Palestinian society as a topic of empirical scrutiny and theoretical significance, much of it either ignores society-level actors and dynamics or regards them as superfluous. Accordingly, society factors into the political story to the degree that it absorbs Israeli policies, is manipulated by self-interested factions, or is pushed to extremism by repression or religious radicalism. This special issue pushes against these trends. This introduction begins with an illustration of the problem, using the example of protest and how, for a century, many commentaries dismiss the societal groundings of mobilization. The essay then reviews a broad interdisciplinary scholarship that offers an alternative approach and the new contribution made by each of the five research articles in this issue. As a collection, these cutting-edge works put Palestinian society front and center as the driver of the Palestinian national movement, the anchor of Palestinian politics, and a key to the Arab-Israeli conflict without which no resolution is possible.

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将巴勒斯坦机构放在首位

虽然一些关于巴勒斯坦政治的政治学奖学金和评论将巴勒斯坦社会作为一个具有实证审查和理论意义的话题，但其中大部分要么忽略了社会层面的参与者和动态，要么认为它们是多余的。因此，社会在一定程度上影响了政治故事，它吸收了以色列的政策，被自私的派系操纵，或者被镇压或宗教激进主义推向极端主义。本期特刊反对这些趋势。本介绍以问题的说明开始，使用抗议的例子，以及一个世纪以来，许多评论如何驳斥动员的社会基础。然后，本文回顾了一个广泛的跨学科奖学金，该奖学金提供了一种替代方法，以及本期五篇研究文章中每一篇所做的新贡献。作为一个集合，这些前卫的作品将巴勒斯坦社会作为巴勒斯坦民族运动的驱动力、巴勒斯坦政治的支柱以及阿以冲突的关键放在首位和中心，没有这种冲突就无法解决。