The latest two rounds of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 2010 and 2013 failed after nine months of negotiations. Despite of the efforts of the negotiators and the support of the US adminis...The latest two rounds of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 2010 and 2013 failed after nine months of negotiations. Despite of the efforts of the negotiators and the support of the US administration, the goal of reaching a final status agreement between the two sides once again could not be achieved. Considering the complexity of the issues, the failure did not surprise most experts who follow the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The reasons are many, but no doubt, the main issue is the distrust between the two sides. The Palestinians, on the one hand, believe that Israel does not want to leave the West Bank and is pursuing the unilateral security policies implemented by Ariel Sharon and his successors after the Camp David talks in 2000. Israel, on the other hand, believes there is no partner on the Palestinian side, with its leadership divided and with Hamas showing no sign of recognizing Israel＇s very existence. Due to the distrust between them, the two parties are heavily dependent on US mediation. Accordingly, both sides restarted negotiations under pressure from the Barack Obama administration half heartedly. In addition to existing problems, Turkey＇s involvement in the conflict by challenging the Gaza embargo and by supporting Palestinians at the expense of Israel in the international arena jeopardized American efforts. So, the failure of the talks was no surprise for many and no doubt it will have considerable consequences for both sides, as the July War in Gaza proves. This article focuses on the limits of American mediation for building trust between the sides, the micro-reasons of the failure of the talks, the possible consequences of this failure, and Turkey＇s Palestinian policy as a further complicating factor.展开更多
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,also be called Arab-Israeli conflict,is a touchstone for the twentieth and twenty-fifirst centuries.The“Five Relationships Culture”is a theory developed by the Chinese people from th...The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,also be called Arab-Israeli conflict,is a touchstone for the twentieth and twenty-fifirst centuries.The“Five Relationships Culture”is a theory developed by the Chinese people from their own origin and roots,from experience awareness,through conceptual reflection,and then theory construction.The perspective of cultural reconciliation of Palestinian-Israeli conflict provided by the“Five Relationships Culture”Theory may be a relatively unique explanation.展开更多
Victimization narratives arise out of the experience of historical and ongoing injury, and often intersect or, in part, constitute identity narratives. Unless transformed through reconciliation, these narratives can b...Victimization narratives arise out of the experience of historical and ongoing injury, and often intersect or, in part, constitute identity narratives. Unless transformed through reconciliation, these narratives can be used to mobilize violent behavior aimed at restoring justice or preventing further victimization. Victimization narratives arise from lived experiences, whether by contemporary generations, or through intergenerational narratives, charging the present generation with the task of ending present or preventing future injury. Those experiences, however, can be mythologized or distorted, particularly when appropriated in support of an ideological agenda. Cycles of violence, therefore, cannot be ended in a sustainable manner unless victimization narratives are transformed and cycles of violence disrupted. This is the work of conflict transformation and sustainable post-conflict democratic institution-building. Since the present global political landscape is made up of thousands of identity or communal groups living in just under two hundred states with complicated histories of intergroup conflict and historical injury, most, if not all states are to some degree post-conflict societies. This article examines both victimization experiences and narratives through the eyes of peace activists and leaders who work in a binational capacity with Jewish Israelis and Palestinians. Hundreds of peace organizations active in Israel and Palestine, this project focuses on those specifically directed toward opening and cultivating spaces for empathetic engagement across the lines of identity. These include, for example, the Abrahamic Reunion, Breaking the Silence （Indigenous Defense Fighter （IDF） Veterans offering witness testimony on the human rights violations under the occupation）, the Bereaved Families Forum, and Combatants for Peace. This article reports preliminary findings from four of 26 interviews conducted with binational peace activists during the summer of 2016.展开更多
While press releases and cultural transmission materials are common materials for understanding a country's selfconstruction of international images,to what extent the speeches at international conferences are eff...While press releases and cultural transmission materials are common materials for understanding a country's selfconstruction of international images,to what extent the speeches at international conferences are effective in shaping national images is yet to explore from a perspective of cognitive linguistics?The present study compiles the minutes of 26 meetings of the United Nations Security Council on“the situation in the Middle East,including the Palestinian issue”,from which the speeches by U.S.representatives were selected to establish a corpus,and explores the self-construction of the American international image with conceptual metaphor theory.It is found that JOURNEY metaphor,BUILDING metaphor and so on are instrumental in shaping its image of advocating peace,but SEED metaphor and NEIGHBOR metaphor,etc.reveal its intention to perpetuate the conflict and double standards in dealing with the two conflicting parties.展开更多
Since its independence in 1948,Israel's policy on Islam-related issues has long been subordinated to its Arab minority policy.Policy priorities that focused on land resource deprivation and security risk avoidance...Since its independence in 1948,Israel's policy on Islam-related issues has long been subordinated to its Arab minority policy.Policy priorities that focused on land resource deprivation and security risk avoidance and its multiple mechanisms for policy implementation highlighted a strategy of securitisation and prag-matism.Since the 1990s,the ascendance of right-wing forces drove Israel's Islam-related policy towards a tougher line,with its concerns shifting from material and security to cultural and ideological ones and resorting more frequently to coercive measures.In this process,the Islamic Movement in Israel became the main opposition force among the Arab community to respond to and challenge the gov-ernment's policy changes.The bilateral mobilisation of Jewish right-wing and hardline Islamist forces amplified the impact of religious issues on the interethnic relations in Israel,which further acceler-ated the trend of radicalisation,Palestinization,and Islamization among the Israeli Arab community.展开更多
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has been one of the most controversial issues in the Middle East since 1948.Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed in 1993 the Oslo Peace Accord,which aimed at settli...The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has been one of the most controversial issues in the Middle East since 1948.Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed in 1993 the Oslo Peace Accord,which aimed at settling the dispute between Israel and Palestine.This peace accord rested on the two-state solution whereby Palestine and Israel would live side by side in peace.Since then,the two-state solution has been the paradigm for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.However,over the last decade,Israel and the Palestinian Authority have not reached any fruitful agreements through negotiation.Followed by the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada(2000–2006),the domination of Hamas in Gaza(since 2006),three major strikes on Gaza by Israeli forces(2009,2012,2014)and repeated territorial fragmentations of the West Bank,the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has persisted and perhaps,getting even worsen;this development has cast doubt on the two-state solution.Against this backdrop,the one-state solution,which has become a heated academic debate in the West,appears to present an alternative solution.Therefore,this paper aims to analyze the reasons for the emergence of the onestate paradigm as an alternative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent years.What is the idea behind the one-state solution?Who are the academic proponents of this solution?What about this plan?These questions are the subject of dispute.This article will provide an evaluation of the one-state solution。展开更多
文摘The latest two rounds of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 2010 and 2013 failed after nine months of negotiations. Despite of the efforts of the negotiators and the support of the US administration, the goal of reaching a final status agreement between the two sides once again could not be achieved. Considering the complexity of the issues, the failure did not surprise most experts who follow the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The reasons are many, but no doubt, the main issue is the distrust between the two sides. The Palestinians, on the one hand, believe that Israel does not want to leave the West Bank and is pursuing the unilateral security policies implemented by Ariel Sharon and his successors after the Camp David talks in 2000. Israel, on the other hand, believes there is no partner on the Palestinian side, with its leadership divided and with Hamas showing no sign of recognizing Israel＇s very existence. Due to the distrust between them, the two parties are heavily dependent on US mediation. Accordingly, both sides restarted negotiations under pressure from the Barack Obama administration half heartedly. In addition to existing problems, Turkey＇s involvement in the conflict by challenging the Gaza embargo and by supporting Palestinians at the expense of Israel in the international arena jeopardized American efforts. So, the failure of the talks was no surprise for many and no doubt it will have considerable consequences for both sides, as the July War in Gaza proves. This article focuses on the limits of American mediation for building trust between the sides, the micro-reasons of the failure of the talks, the possible consequences of this failure, and Turkey＇s Palestinian policy as a further complicating factor.
文摘The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,also be called Arab-Israeli conflict,is a touchstone for the twentieth and twenty-fifirst centuries.The“Five Relationships Culture”is a theory developed by the Chinese people from their own origin and roots,from experience awareness,through conceptual reflection,and then theory construction.The perspective of cultural reconciliation of Palestinian-Israeli conflict provided by the“Five Relationships Culture”Theory may be a relatively unique explanation.
文摘Victimization narratives arise out of the experience of historical and ongoing injury, and often intersect or, in part, constitute identity narratives. Unless transformed through reconciliation, these narratives can be used to mobilize violent behavior aimed at restoring justice or preventing further victimization. Victimization narratives arise from lived experiences, whether by contemporary generations, or through intergenerational narratives, charging the present generation with the task of ending present or preventing future injury. Those experiences, however, can be mythologized or distorted, particularly when appropriated in support of an ideological agenda. Cycles of violence, therefore, cannot be ended in a sustainable manner unless victimization narratives are transformed and cycles of violence disrupted. This is the work of conflict transformation and sustainable post-conflict democratic institution-building. Since the present global political landscape is made up of thousands of identity or communal groups living in just under two hundred states with complicated histories of intergroup conflict and historical injury, most, if not all states are to some degree post-conflict societies. This article examines both victimization experiences and narratives through the eyes of peace activists and leaders who work in a binational capacity with Jewish Israelis and Palestinians. Hundreds of peace organizations active in Israel and Palestine, this project focuses on those specifically directed toward opening and cultivating spaces for empathetic engagement across the lines of identity. These include, for example, the Abrahamic Reunion, Breaking the Silence （Indigenous Defense Fighter （IDF） Veterans offering witness testimony on the human rights violations under the occupation）, the Bereaved Families Forum, and Combatants for Peace. This article reports preliminary findings from four of 26 interviews conducted with binational peace activists during the summer of 2016.
文摘While press releases and cultural transmission materials are common materials for understanding a country's selfconstruction of international images,to what extent the speeches at international conferences are effective in shaping national images is yet to explore from a perspective of cognitive linguistics?The present study compiles the minutes of 26 meetings of the United Nations Security Council on“the situation in the Middle East,including the Palestinian issue”,from which the speeches by U.S.representatives were selected to establish a corpus,and explores the self-construction of the American international image with conceptual metaphor theory.It is found that JOURNEY metaphor,BUILDING metaphor and so on are instrumental in shaping its image of advocating peace,but SEED metaphor and NEIGHBOR metaphor,etc.reveal its intention to perpetuate the conflict and double standards in dealing with the two conflicting parties.
文摘Since its independence in 1948,Israel's policy on Islam-related issues has long been subordinated to its Arab minority policy.Policy priorities that focused on land resource deprivation and security risk avoidance and its multiple mechanisms for policy implementation highlighted a strategy of securitisation and prag-matism.Since the 1990s,the ascendance of right-wing forces drove Israel's Islam-related policy towards a tougher line,with its concerns shifting from material and security to cultural and ideological ones and resorting more frequently to coercive measures.In this process,the Islamic Movement in Israel became the main opposition force among the Arab community to respond to and challenge the gov-ernment's policy changes.The bilateral mobilisation of Jewish right-wing and hardline Islamist forces amplified the impact of religious issues on the interethnic relations in Israel,which further acceler-ated the trend of radicalisation,Palestinization,and Islamization among the Israeli Arab community.
文摘The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has been one of the most controversial issues in the Middle East since 1948.Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed in 1993 the Oslo Peace Accord,which aimed at settling the dispute between Israel and Palestine.This peace accord rested on the two-state solution whereby Palestine and Israel would live side by side in peace.Since then,the two-state solution has been the paradigm for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.However,over the last decade,Israel and the Palestinian Authority have not reached any fruitful agreements through negotiation.Followed by the outbreak of the Al-Aqsa Intifada(2000–2006),the domination of Hamas in Gaza(since 2006),three major strikes on Gaza by Israeli forces(2009,2012,2014)and repeated territorial fragmentations of the West Bank,the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has persisted and perhaps,getting even worsen;this development has cast doubt on the two-state solution.Against this backdrop,the one-state solution,which has become a heated academic debate in the West,appears to present an alternative solution.Therefore,this paper aims to analyze the reasons for the emergence of the onestate paradigm as an alternative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent years.What is the idea behind the one-state solution?Who are the academic proponents of this solution?What about this plan?These questions are the subject of dispute.This article will provide an evaluation of the one-state solution。
