Israel's Geopolitical Dilemma

Hasson, Shlomo

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“…Affordable housing adjacent to Israel’s metropolitan regions is a central motivation for settlement development and for relocation to affordable West Bank gated communities (Allweil, 2020). Geopolitical concerns regarding Israel’s eastern border further justify Israel’s settlement rationale (Hasson, 2010; Newman, 2002).…”

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Ideology, environment, and open space in conflict arenas: The discrepancies and harmonizing strategies of West Bank Israeli settlers

Arieli

Schaffer

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The natural environments of conflict arenas often embody invisible contexts for political analysis. This study questions how environmental agendas are framed and acted upon by mid-level environmental professionals engaged in land-focused conflict. Ideological attachment to contested land together with engagement in the polemics of conflict, facilitate unique engagements with environmental agendas, particularly regarding open space preservation. This engagement prioritizes conflict-related goals and thus creates discrepancies between environmental knowledge, attitudes, and actions. Our study focuses on Israeli West Bank settlers who serve as mid-level environmental professionals and share professional dilemmas. Mid-level environmental professionals, rather than high-level policy and decision makers, are “street-level bureaucrats” and therefore a potentially novel and revealing source of environmental positions within the settler community. Through interviews focused on Israeli environment-related policies in the West Bank, we reveal disparities between environmental knowledge and the positions grounded in this group’s political identity and loyalties and identify the three particular harmonizing strategies employed in narrating the realities of their professional initiatives and agendas. We expose a distinct dual agenda, one which acknowledges environmental values and concerns, and yet only selectively recognizes and engages in goals of open space preservation when these challenge settlement infrastructure and expansion. These environmental discrepancies can be interpreted as the cynical political manipulation of environmental values, yet we propose that at a mid-level professional level, they can serve as self-rationalization in resolving dual loyalties to both political and environmental agendas. Personal realities and life experiences of environmental professionals affected by the conflict are identified as significant to the design and support of the resulting selective environmental agenda.

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Ideology, environment, and open space in conflict arenas: The discrepancies and harmonizing strategies of West Bank Israeli settlers

Arieli

Schaffer

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…It is dually claimed as the capital of the state of Israel and as the future capital of a would‐be Palestinian state. Jerusalem is a battleground for those who live within it and for many others around the world who contest its boundaries (Hasson, ; Shlay and Rosen, ). It is consumed by spatial conflicts over landownership, resource distribution and neighborhood identity.…”

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Whose Right toJerusalem?

Rosen

Shlay

2014

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Jerusalem is a city mired in spatial conflict. Its contested spaces represent deep conflicts among groups that vary by national identity, religion, religiosity and gender. The omnipresent nature of these conflicts provides an opportunity to look at Henri Lefebvre's concept of the right to the city (RTC). The RTC has been adopted and celebrated as a political tool for positive change, enabling communities to take control of space. Based on extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, this article explores the complexity of the RTC principles and examines three urban battlefields in Jerusalem -Bar-Ilan Street, the Kotel and the Orient House. The RTC is a powerful idea, providing the opportunity to examine people's everyday activities within the context of how space can be used to support their lives. Yet Jerusalem's myriad divisions produce claims by different groups to different parts of the city. In Jerusalem, the RTC is not a clear vision but a kaleidoscope of rights that produces a fragmented landscape within a religious and ethno-national context governed by the nation state -Israel. The growth of cultural and ethnic diversity in urban areas may limit the possibility for a unified RTC to emerge in an urban sea of demands framed by difference. Space-based cultural conflict exemplifies urban divisions and exacerbates claims to 'my Jerusalem', not 'our Jerusalem'. Identity-based claims to the RTC appear to work against, not for, a universalistic RTC.

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Contemporary Geopolitics of Israel-Palestine: Conflict Resolution and the Construction of Knowledge

Newman

2010

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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Israel's Geopolitical Dilemma

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Ideology, environment, and open space in conflict arenas: The discrepancies and harmonizing strategies of West Bank Israeli settlers

Ideology, environment, and open space in conflict arenas: The discrepancies and harmonizing strategies of West Bank Israeli settlers

Whose Right toJerusalem?

Contemporary Geopolitics of Israel-Palestine: Conflict Resolution and the Construction of Knowledge

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