In Toward Coexistence, published by the Institute for Palestine Studies, historian Muhammad Y. Muslih analyses the resolutions of the Palestine National Council, the parliament-in-exile of the Palestinian people, from the founding of the PLO in 1964 to 1988.

Muslih traces how the PNC’s positions evolved from the goal of liberating all of Palestine through armed struggle to the 1988 Declaration of Independence, which accepted UN resolutions and implied a two-state settlement. He shows the gradual shift in Palestinian political thinking and the debates behind it.