The Foundational Task of the Figurative places for the Israelis and Palestinians

The Figurative Places’ Foundational Task for Israelis and Palestinians

The idiosyncrasy of peasant devotion to places around the world was the foundation of the remarkable durability of the massive hierarchical and superlatively manipulative governmental systems. For example, attachment to ancestral burial grounds, caves with eerie humorous sounds, and even streams with natural flooding tendencies during specified times of the year all contribute to the formation of national identities. That is to say; it was the cosmic medley of particularities that made it possible for the colonial centers to implement the systematic strategies such as divide and rule thus leveraging their connections to the area chiefs, priests, and even elders. It is through such symbolic places that have made the Palestinians and the Israelites find it hard to co-exist and also find a solution to their age-old antagonisms. The paper, therefore, explores the foundational responsibility of the symbolic places for the national identities of the Israelis and Palestinians.

For the existence of the nationalism and the national states individuals had to learn on how to identify conceptually and to take the abstract connections to the persons they did not know and spaces they were not familiar with so severely that they would fight for their protection. The disorienting procedures of social mobilization affected almost all the masses in the world inclusive of the Jews, more so the European ones, for instance, the wars, and oppression. The Jews’ place in the Christian society was of estrangement and segregation, just moving in the world and had no attachment to the places they visited. Their cultural merriment of their non-remembered land of Israel offered them the practice of the nonfigurative devotion not to a place of exceptional personal significance, but to a space of cooperative, abstract, and categorical focus (Lustick, 70).

Even though there was a massive role in the society with the determination to incorporate the Jews from diverse places the Zionism still faced a unique predicament; making the new country different, alien, and unknown for the majority of the Jewish inhabitants to feel at home. They put more emphasis on the terrain mapping of Israel’s land thus spotting and climbing the traces and exploring the caves, springs, and even altering the names of places to the imaginary Hebrew terms. On the other hand, the Arabs displaced from their country Palestine and living in what became the Israel never yearned to go back to their space of Palestine but to their fields and homes as that was valuable to them most than the promised and celebrated yet unremembered space. The Palestinians, therefore, had the right of return to their specific homes and villages and also get back from the areas outside Palestine to any locations in the space that was not of actual origin and attachment. They were different from the Zionist immigrants in that they needed no mapping of the areas they once settled in or even how to move back to the ancestral land. Moreover, the majority of the Israel refugees traveled back home and remained there as they were well conversant with the roads and trails and had attachments to them (Lustick, 71).

Therefore, the symbolic places of the Palestinian and Israel national identities have always led to the disagreement between the two groups due to the variance in their trajectories. The bulk of the Israelis cannot afford the detachment from the places they call home as a part of constructing an affection to space. Conversely, the majority of the Palestinians don’t comprehend the significance of the attachment of the Israelis to the places they are in, but only see them as cruel and brutal individuals that occupy the space of Palestine against their will.

References

Lustick, I. S. (n.d.). RECOVERED ROOTS.