“Different Interpretation of the UN Bid: The Politician and the Intellectual: From a Life of Resistance to Negotiations The Crucial Factor: Discourse, Pattern of Production or Funding?”

Dr. Samara talked about how Palestinians have shifted from the track of resistance to negotiations, with relying on the issue of political economy as a tool for analysis. Dr. Samara also discussed the dependency policy of deconstructing Economics, and the role of culture and of the intellectual in fighting the colonizer; along with analyzing the relationship between the intellectual and the politician to subordinate the intellectual to the authority. He Also referred to different categories of Palestinian intellectuals who have consented with the rule of self determination and the peace agreements. He also referred to the reasons which have supported  this transition such as, creating an atmosphere of consenting to agreements, financially depending on foreign aid, lacking developmental plans, accepting the advices of the World Bank, and the Americanization of lifestyle.