Abrupt Leadership Change: Society
It is necessary to rebuild a representative Palestinian national body through consensus in order to reinvigorate resistance. The national body must be made up of democratic intuitions, movements, and associations that represent the different components of Palestinian society in order to unify them in collective action. Further analysis on this intersection is not available at this time.
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