Social legitimisation of the occupation of Palestinian territories by Nour Eltawil

How has the majority of Israeli society come to accept the occupation of over four million Palestinians as a normative situation?

nme66 — 2024-03-27 23:52:02 UTC

In what ways does the ideology of Zionism serve to justify and rationalize the continued occupation of Palestinian Territories?

nme66 — 2024-03-27 23:58:56 UTC

How did Israel slowly conquer the land of Palestine?

nme66 — 2024-03-28 00:18:45 UTC

nme66 — 2024-03-28 00:25:41 UTC

Israel is attempting to erase Palestine from the map, history and mankind by delegitimizing it

nme66 — 2024-03-28 00:46:21 UTC

There is a large number of the settlers in the West Bank who were never motivated to serve israel but have been attracted with economic incentives such as government led longterm loans with no interest and tax breaks.

nme66 — 2024-03-28 00:48:30 UTC

"the government has aimed to encourage and legitimise the settlement project in the West Bank. ‘They do not tell the people that Israel is deliberately forcing the Palestinians out [...] The majority of people think that if the government is encouraging that, then it is fine [...] The majority do not even think about themselves as settlers"

nme66 — 2024-03-28 00:49:49 UTC

Brainwashing and Indoctrination

nme66 — 2024-03-28 01:21:16 UTC

As Peled-Elhanan concluded "deleting the other from the map is an epitome of cultural violence". These practices have led to the institutionalized invisibility of the Palestinian people

nme66 — 2024-03-28 01:25:20 UTC

Legal status of Palestine

nme66 — 2024-03-28 01:26:31 UTC

israel has established settlements in occupied territories, which are considered 'illegal' under international law. These settlements, along with the construction of a separation barrier or the wall, have resulted in the displacement of Palestinians and significant restrictions on their movement and access to resources.

nme66 — 2024-03-28 01:27:35 UTC

Attempts to negotiate a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians such as the Oslo Accords in the 1990s

nme66 — 2024-03-28 01:30:14 UTC

The myth that the land was in effect terra nulliu (territory without a master)

nme66 — 2024-03-28 01:32:27 UTC

Destruction of territory

nme66 — 2024-03-28 01:33:30 UTC

villages had been destroyed as well as urban neighbourhoods were emptied of their inhabitants. The demolition of the villages was accompanied by the destruction of Arab agricultural, religious, historical and cultural sites.

nme66 — 2024-03-28 01:36:52 UTC

Zionists have engaged in a sophisticated strategy aimed at undermining the legitimacy of Palestinian nationhood by obliterating their identity through the denial and rejection of their historical presence on the land.

nme66 — 2024-03-28 02:17:25 UTC

the land is a cultural and religious symbols/ Biblical promises

nme66 — 2024-03-28 02:24:49 UTC

Religious beliefs are a big reason why people think the occupation is ethical. They interpret biblical promises about Israel's land as reasons why Jews should control the entirety of the territory, including areas inhabited by Palestinians.

nme66 — 2024-03-28 02:26:10 UTC

Historical rights

nme66 — 2024-03-28 02:28:30 UTC

Zionism often highlights that Jewish folks have a historical claim to the land, especially considering their past suffering and being scattered around the world. This story says that Jews going back to live in Israel is them rightfully reclaiming their old homeland.

nme66 — 2024-03-28 02:35:21 UTC

Ze’ev Elkin, Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and now Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Minister of Environmental Protection claims "The Palestinian state was never established, even in the time between 1948 and 1967, when Jordan and Egypt controlled the territories […] From an international law point of view, you cannot take a part of a state, but it was not a Palestinian state, it was a disputed territory, as Egyptian and Jordanian presence on this land was illegal. If the Palestinian state was established in 1947–8, and they would have sent Arab leaders to agree with the decision of the United Nations like Israel did, then we could talk about a Palestinian occupied land. The West Bank, therefore, is a disputed territory because you cannot occupy a land that does not belong to anyone"

nme66 — 2024-03-28 02:46:48 UTC

"The dispute over the ‘ownership’ of the West Bank goes beyond its legal status. The Israeli sense of entitlement to the territory is based on the religious claim to the land: the Eretz Yisrael, a Promised Land, given by God to the Jewish people more than 2000 years ago. When modern Zionism first articulated the idea that this promise could be redeemed by means of the creation of a modern nation-state in the absence of the Messiah, it proved to be somewhat controversial among the wider Jewish population (of Europe) who, for the most part, were deeply religious and eschewed participation in politics."

Helpful source for further research

nme66 — 2024-03-28 02:57:25 UTC