POLI 347 Lecture 2: Lecture 2
3 Oct 2018
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The conflict has been referred to variously as arab-jewish, arab-zionist, arab-israeli, or. The act of calling it arab-israeli conflict does recognize the disputes that have occured between the two groups in history. Problem with the term: generalizes (cid:3247)arabs(cid:3248) groups palestinians with arabs. One key strategy of israeli gov was to denounce the status of palestine to discredit any palestinian claims to it"s land. There"s no such thing as palestine/palestinians, just arabs . The territory in dispute has been referred to variously as palestine; israel-palestine; Greater israel; israel; judea and samaria; or israel, the west bank and gaza - this is loaded. Arab maps do not recognize israel, just says palestine (even though. There is still no fully independent state of palestine. Extreme right wing zionism (more religious): no recognition of the existence of palestinian people. Will speak of greater israel, judea and samaria, biblical terms.
