Palestine has more elements of a vigorous civil society than virtually any other country in the Arab world, including an active human rights movement, which initially focused only on Israeli abuses, but that has increasingly criticized violations by the Palestinian Authority itself. Palestine also has a powerful women’s movement (Palestine being the first Arab country to give women the vote, in 1946).
比起任何阿拉伯世界的其他国家，巴勒斯坦具有更多一个生机勃勃的公民社会所需的元素，包括积极的人权运动。这原本仅仅针对以色列攻击，但是现在该运动正越来越多地批评巴勒斯坦政权本身的暴力行动。巴勒斯坦也有强大的妇女运动（巴勒斯坦是第一个给予妇女投票权的阿拉伯国家，1946年）