0.3 巴勒斯坦三千年来的政治自治、独立与建国
0.3 Political Autonomy, Independence And Statehood In Palestine Over The Last Three Millennia
常规观点往往由有权势的精英阐述,它们未必以事实为基础。通行的看法是,巴勒斯坦在其历史上从未经历过自治、政治或文化自主,更不用说实际主权和真正的国家地位。事实远非如此。正如本书将充分论证的那样,从青铜时代晚期直到1948年以色列国建立,三千年间巴勒斯坦享有相当程度的社会、政治和经济自治,并以六种各不相同(但并不互相排斥)的方式经历过国家形态,这些方式深刻影响了巴勒斯坦观念在千年间的演变。
Conventional wisdoms are often articulated by powerful elites; they are not always based on facts. The conventional wisdom is that Palestine never in its history experienced self-government, political or cultural autonomy, not to mention practical sovereignty and actual statehood. Nothing is further from the truth. As we shall amply demonstrate in this work, over three millennia from the late Bronze Age and until the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948, Palestine enjoyed a great deal of social, political and economic autonomy and also experienced statehood through six distinct, though not mutually exclusive, ways – ways which had a profound impact on the evolution of the ideas of Palestine across the millennia:
• 自主的经济与货币体系及巴勒斯坦货币的发行:独立货币政策的确立与独特的巴勒斯坦货币的铸造,在公元前6至4世纪的非利士或非利士-阿拉伯钱币(见第一章讨论)以及伊斯兰早期“在菲勒斯廷”(in Filastin)铸造的阿拉伯货币(见第六章讨论)中均有明显体现。