Yes, Edward Said above all. He advocated moving from a "national liberation" strategy to a "human rights" one.
One notable development is that the rhetoric of fighting against apartheid has taken roots, among grassroots Palestinians and their Jewish and other supporters. That's hopeful, a sign that recognition of reality is dawning on them.
But that rhetoric is completely divorced from the Palestinian leadership's strategy, to the extent that any faction -- Hamas, Abbas, etc. -- of them can be said to have anything worth the name of strategy at all.
> Well, the Zionists obviously. This potential demographic and democratic
> threat is why Sharon and Olmert decided to retreat from the thinly-populated
> settlements in Gaza and the West Bank and to fortify and thicken the larger
> settlements along Israel's new and expanded de facto border.
Such Zionists will never accept the human rights solution either, but the human rights strategy will deny them an ability to pretend to have accepted a two state solution and to make the actually existing Jewish state from the sea to the river invisible. Denying Zionists that ability is the first step in the Palestinian war of position if Palestinians hope to win at all (it's clear that Palestinians, always at military disadvantage and lacking in the Arab power elite's support, cannot win in a war of maneuver, unless Arab streets overthrow the existing Arab elite and remake the Middle East from the bottom up, beginning in Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf States). -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>