The Boundaries of Israel—Palestine, Past, Present and Future: A Critical Geographical View

Biger, Gideon

doi:10.2979/isr.2008.13.1.68

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“…In 1867, the southern half of Palestine was separated from the Syrian province, to become directly accountable to the Sultan (Biger, 2008; Ramzy et al., 2007). Consequently, the spark of separation from the other sibling districts within the region began.…”

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“…Strategically located between three continents and as a religious, cultural, commercial, and political junction, Palestine's history was turbulent, with many kingdoms and powers ruling over it. Since the time of the Crusades, it has not been an autonomous state and its geographical borders are continuously being redefined (Biger, 1981(Biger, , 2008.…”

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“…archaic fraternal complex, incestual mode of functioning, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, primal mourning, return-to-the-maternalwomb fantasy, trauma work (Lewis, 1980). They did not recognize it as a separate administrative subdivision, nor did they delineate its borders clearly (Biger, 1981(Biger, , 2008. As of 1840, Palestine referred to the Western consular jurisdictions (Kark, 1994) or the region that extended in the north-south direction, usually from Rafah to the Litani River, currently part of Lebanon.…”

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Israeli‐Palestinian conflict: The archaic fraternal complex

Abdel‐Malek

2023

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is one of the world's most persistent and intractable conflicts. Despite extensive and in‐depth analyses to help understand and transform it, the parties have failed to reach sustainable peace. In this article, I extend group and family psychoanalytic theories to analyze the unconscious dynamics that potentially underlie this relationship, interpreting it in light of the biblical narrative of Abraham, his wives—Sarah and Hagar, and sons—Isaac and Ishmael. Using the above‐mentioned framework, I interpret the Israeli–Palestinian conflict over land as an enactment of the archaic fraternal complex, whereby each sibling unconsciously entertains the fantasy of returning to the maternal womb and aspires to be the exclusive owner of maternal space and the mother's phallus. Consideration of the archaic fraternal complex dynamics offers psychoanalytically oriented mediators an additional tool to understand conflicts, especially land‐related disputes. To work through intractable conflict, these mediators can help the belligerent parties perform the psychic work of trauma and primal mourning to stop enacting the fantasy of returning to the maternal womb and to accept symbolic castration. This work could contribute to the warring parties' ability to renounce their rigid ideological positions and seal new fraternal pacts under the aegis of the law of reason. Their fraternal complex would thus be transformed from archaic and talionic to symbolic and Oedipal.

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Section: A Brief Historical Overviewmentioning

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Israeli‐Palestinian conflict: The archaic fraternal complex

Abdel‐Malek

2023

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“…Feldexpert*innen haben sich auf Grenzziehungen und deren Auswirkungen konzentriert (vgl. Schofield et al 2002;Biger 2008). Doch wie Wissenschaftler*innen aus den Science and Technology Studies herausgearbeitet haben, muss die Materialität von Grenzlinien, durch eine Reihe von physischen Objekten, Papieren, Karten als auch durch konzeptuelle Daten konstituiert, verstanden werden (vgl.…”

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Die Konstruktion von Grenzen: Der Wandel einer Ausgrenzungspolitik zu einer Integrationspolitik

Leuenberger¹

2021

Grenzforschung

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“…Arguably, the geography and cartography of the Middle East is an ideal laboratory for science studies. Map-making in the Middle East is a controversy in the making as Israel's national borders are disputed (Biger, 2008(Biger, , 2009 and Israeli, Palestinian, and internationally produced maps continue to depict the region differently.…”

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The politics of maps: Constructing national territories in Israel

Leuenberger

Schnell

2010

Soc Stud Sci

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Within the last 2000 years the land demarcated by the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Jordan Valley to the east has been one of the most disputed territories in history. World powers have redrawn its boundaries numerous times. Since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 within British Mandate Palestine, Palestinians and Israelis have disagreed over the national identity of the land that they both inhabit. The struggles have extended from the battlefields to the classrooms. In the process, different national and ethnic groups have used various sciences, ranging from archeology to history and geography, to prove territorial claims based on their historical presence in the region. But how have various Israeli social and political groups used maps to solidify claims over the territory? In this paper we bring together science studies and critical cartography in order to investigate cartographic representations as socially embedded practices and address how visual rhetoric intersects with knowledge claims in cartography. Before the 1967 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the Israeli government and the Jewish National Fund produced maps of Israel that established a Hebrew topography of the land. After 1967, Israel’s expanded territorial control made the demarcation of its borders ever more controversial. Consequently, various Israeli interest groups and political parties increasingly used various cartographic techniques to forge territorial spaces, demarcate disputed boundaries, and inscribe particular national, political, and ethnic identities onto the land.

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The Boundaries of Israel—Palestine, Past, Present and Future: A Critical Geographical View

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Israeli‐Palestinian conflict: The archaic fraternal complex

Israeli‐Palestinian conflict: The archaic fraternal complex

Die Konstruktion von Grenzen: Der Wandel einer Ausgrenzungspolitik zu einer Integrationspolitik

The politics of maps: Constructing national territories in Israel

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