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The Arab-Israeli conflict is basically a conflict between two resurgent nationalisms. Do you agree with the above assertion? Give reasons in support of your answer.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Changing International Political Order

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The assertion reads the conflict as a clash of two national movements, Zionism and Arab (later specifically Palestinian) nationalism, each claiming the same land as its homeland. Both are "resurgent": Zionism presented itself as the political revival of a dispersed people, and Arab nationalism as the reawakening of a people after Ottoman and European rule.…

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