As a consequence of the policies of openness which have been organized over the past twenty-five years, the Arabic political language has integrated the notion of civil society without giving it any extensive substance. The experience of the application of the Oslo agreements gave the Palestinian society the opportunity to consolidate the civil institutions that had allowed it, in exile and during the first Intifada, to compensate for the absence of institutionalized political power and to organize pluralism while they were in exile and during the first Intifada. Despite the bankruptcy of the Oslo process, the question here is whether these particular conditions facilitated the formation of a public space that promotes civility and is likely to establish politically creative differentiations.