Implicate Relations: Society and Space in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1993) (GeoJournal Library #23)

Synopsis

In his beautiful booklnvisible eities Italo Calvino writes about the two cities ofValdrada, the one which lies on the shores of a lake, and the other which is reflected in the lake and contains not only the exterior of Valdrada on the shores, but also its interior, and probably its inhabitants. "Valdrada's inhabitants know", writes Calvino, "that each of their actions is, at once, that action and its mirror image . . . and this awareness prevents them from succumbing for a single moment to chance and forgetfulness". Such mirror­ image relations are characteristic of the Israeli-Palestinian relations, and the awareness of this property is, to my mind, one of the most dominant experiences in being 'an Israeli. As an Israeli I can testify that Palestinianism is a permanent resident in the personal and collective consciousness of Israelis, and I have good grounds to suppose that Zionism plays a similar role in the personal and collective consciousness of Palestinians. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is thus not only political, but also very personal, and the account I present below is no exception. It is my personal, and in this respect Israeli, perspective of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, with no pretension to a value-free and objective science.

Copyright:

1993

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9789401718394

Related ISBNs:

9780792318866

Publisher:

Springer Netherlands

Date of Addition:

06/30/22

Copyrighted By:

Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies, Philosophy, Politics and Government

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