This study examines the proposition that development NGOs are playing an active part in the de-politicization of Palestinian womens movements fight for independence and liberation from occupation by advancing the "development projects" (McMicheal, 1996) push for Western conceptions and projects of democratisation and modernisation as being the key to economic and social development of Palestinian society, while disregarding the current state of occupation (Jad, 2003). The application of Third World feminist perspectives allows for the examination of structural and systemic forms of...