Israel-Palestine

Israel-Palestine or Israel/Palestine is a sometimes-used designation that categorizes Green Line Israel, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank as a singular territorial and political unit. Geographically equivalent terms include Palestine, the Land of Israel, and the Holy Land. A relatively new term,[1] its usage stresses the contested and militarized nature of the land,[2] the overlapping definitions of Palestinian and Zionist homelands, and the geography of Israeli control since the 1967 Six-Day War.[3]

Nur Masalha criticizes the name "Israel-Palestine" as a product of the "peace process industry" and liberal Zionism, with the hyphenation presenting Israel as the core/primary political entity and Palestine as a secondary/subordinate appendage.[1] Many Israelis have also criticized this usage as an early step towards a larger acceptance of a binational one-state solution for the region.[4] Palestine-Israel has been employed as an alternative name that recognizes the asymmetry of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and seeks to assert Palestine as of equal validity to Israel.[5] On the other hand, Walid Daqqah has characterized "Israel-Palestine" as instead promoting a false equality, arguing that the hyphenation gives the appearance of moral symmetry and strategically avoids the framing of Israel as a colonialist entity.[6]

Some academics have commented on perceived discursive symbolism in both "Israel-Palestine" and "Israel/Palestine". According to Hella Bloom Cohen, "Israel-Palestine" differs conceptually from "Israel/Palestine" in that the former designation emphasizes a shared aspect while the latter expresses an "and/or" notion.[7] In the view of Mikki Stelder, while "Israel/Palestine" refers to a "particular geopolitical formation", the slash also symbolizes Israel's domination over the Palestinians.[8] Similarly, Louise Katz considers "Israel/Palestine" to insinuate an "either/or" relationship– that one state exists at the expense of the other– while simultaneously indicating interchangeability. She notes that even the word "slash" itself can carry connotations of brutality and can symbolize an uncomfortable and violent relationship.[9]

A 2024 international report on pincer wasps in the Middle East used the term "Israel-Palestine" and noted that the researchers classified it as a single country in order to avoid confusion, since several taxonomic groups of the wasps had been recorded before the establishment of Israel in areas that are now variously within Green Line Israel and the Palestinian territories.[10]

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References

  1. ^ a b Masalha, Nur (2018). Palestine: a four thousand year history. London, England: Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-78699-274-1.
  2. ^ Zureik, Elia; Lyon, David; Abu-Laban, Yasmeen, eds. (2011). Surveillance and control in Israel/Palestine: population, territory, and power. Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-84596-7.
  3. ^ Yiftachel, O. (2002). "Territory as the Kernel of the Nation: Space, Time and Nationalism in Israel/Palestine". Geopolitics. 7 (2): 215–248. doi:10.1080/714000930. ISSN 1465-0045.
  4. ^ Rabinovich, Itamar (2021). "The Israeli-Palestinian War of Narratives: Nur Masalha's Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History in Context". Bustan: The Middle East Book Review. 12 (2): 129–149. doi:10.2307/48678172. ISSN 1878-5301.
  5. ^ Long, Joanna (2011). "Geographies of Palestine‐Israel". Geography Compass. 5 (5): 262–274. doi:10.1111/j.1749-8198.2011.00419.x. ISSN 1749-8198.
  6. ^ Al-Shaikh, Abdul-Rahim (2021-07-20). "The Parallel Human: Walid Daqqah on the 1948 Palestinian Political Prisoners:". Confluences Méditerranée. 117 (2): 73–87. doi:10.3917/come.117.0075. ISSN 1148-2664.
  7. ^ Cohen, Hella Bloom (2016). The Literary Imagination in Israel-Palestine: Orientalism, Poetry, and Biopolitics. Postcolonialism and Religions. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-71579-4.
  8. ^ Stelder, Mikki (2022). "The Limits of Transnationalizing Homonationalism in/for Palestine" (PDF). Feral Feminisms (11).
  9. ^ Katz, Louise (2020). "Narratives of violence and hope in Israel/Palestine". Literature & Aesthetics. 30 (2).
  10. ^ Ghahari, Hassan; Gadallah, Neveen S.; Macek, Jan; Rond, Jeroen de (2024-07-31). "A Checklist of Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) of the Middle East". JOURNAL OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY. doi:10.51963/jers.v26i2.2562. ISSN 2651-3579.
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