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Shared land/conflicting identity : trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian symbol use / Robert C Rowland and David A. Frank.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowland, Robert C., 1954-
- Series:
- Rhetoric and public affairs series.
- Rhetoric and public affairs series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arab-Israeli conflict--Psychological aspects.
- Arab-Israeli conflict.
- National characteristics, Israeli--Psychological aspects.
- National characteristics, Israeli.
- National characteristics, Arab--Psychological aspects.
- National characteristics, Arab.
- Symbolism in politics.
- Communication--Political aspects--Israel.
- Communication.
- Group identity--Political aspects--Israel.
- Group identity.
- Signs and symbols--Israel--History--20th century.
- Signs and symbols.
- Propaganda, Zionist--History--20th century.
- Propaganda, Zionist.
- Propaganda, Arab--History--20th century.
- Propaganda, Arab.
- Political psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (418 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use argues that rhetoric, ideology, and myth have played key roles in influencing the development of the 100-year conflict between first the Zionist settlers and the current Israeli people and the Palestinian residents in what is now Israel. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is usually treated as an issue of land and water. While these elements are the core of the conflict, they are heavily influenced by the symbols used by both peoples to describe, understand, and persuade each other. The authors argue that sym
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Key Exigencies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Chapter 1: The Symbolic Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Chapter 2: A Symbolic Template for Analyzing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Chapter 3: The Birth of the Symbolic Systems of Labor and Revisionist Zionism; Chapter 4: The Symbolic Construction of the Palestinian People; Chapter 5: Symbolic Trajectories in the Development of Labor and Revisionist Zionism; Chapter 6: The Essential Palestinian; Chapter 7: From Camp David to Lebanon; Chapter 8: From the Occupation to Intifada
- Chapter 9: Symbolic Stagnation and Ideological Calcification in IsraelChapter 10: Palestinian Symbolic Trajectories to Oslo; Chapter 11: Palestinian Myth and the Reality of Oslo; Chapter 12: From Symbolic Stasis to the End of Revisionism; Chapter 13: Symbol Use and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-62895-210-5
- 0-87013-949-5
- 1-4294-8039-4
- OCLC:
- 162128127
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