The article is aimed at drawing attention to the process of developing Palestinian national practices in the context of local and international politics. The paper aims to refocuse the current research emphasis on the top-down impact of Palestinian identity policy and focus the research on "bottom-up" factors, which often were and are in opposition to the main Palestinian political forces. I examine the process by which Palestinian nationalism, without proper state and institutional structures, has succeeded in effectively developing its national practices, that have become the basis for future institutionalization within the Palestinian Authority, and then the Palestinian state. I focus on exploring the practical use of nationalist discourse, not only in its historical development, but also in the Palestinian contemporary everyday life. The analysis concerns the creation and reproduction of the effect of the "natural sense” of national identity in the everyday life and political practice. of Palestinians (ie the sense of obviousness and timelessness of practices of national importance, despite the fact that until 1994 the discourse was not supported by state or quasi-state institutions). The nation is not only imagined, as Benedict Anderson claims, but above all it is practiced. Membership in a nation must be experienced by people. Those practices promote the perception of national identity, despite the existence of diverse national imagery, symbolic meanings and knowledge of the nation. The opportunity to participate in specific practices allows for the organization of the existing diversity of cultural phenomena into their collective national experience.