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Part 2: Cards as Weapons in Israel-Palestine.

"E. Said wrote that Israelis and Palestinians are trying to isolate themselves and to forget about each other, and I think this lucid observation shows a constant relationship between the two peoples that seems intimately related to the continued failure of efforts to find a solution to the conflict. " Introduction to the cycle of post" Notes on the political geography of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "

Map 1: Map of Israel UN

card you see above is a correct international paper of the State of 'Israel. In it the state's borders are marked by the armistice agreements of 1949 and Jerusalem is not mentioned by the place names as its capital. The latter a rarity, seen by anyone within reach a common Zanichelli atlas or a world map hanging on the wall of their room. The paper 2 instead shows how complicated it is, after the constitution of the State of Israel and the Arab-Israeli wars, the political geography of Israel / Palestine.

Map 2

the background of this new geographical context and in the meshes of the contrasts that characterize it, we have developed and continue to be powered, two antithetical narrative space none of which in turn is in line with the political reality of the territory (see map 1). While that part of the Palestinian community that still does not recognize the existence of the State of Israel says the area simply as if the State of Israel did not exist , the other tends to replace the Israeli intelligentsia the correct image of the state with the ideological of Greater Israel, omitting or deleting the existence of a legitimate opponent territorial space to make room for national representation in which the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights are incorporated and homogenized by boundaries the State territory. For a tourist who goes to Israel is easy to find these images distorted and being a victim, ranging from common to send postcards to friends who probably stuck to the fridge magnets on our return:

fig.1 A postcard from Israel

fig.2 a magnet to Israel

Moreover, these representations are scattered in various tourist guides (and usually, when present, the entire guide is to follow the spirit), then choose your guide carefully and thoroughly examined as well as the completeness of the information practice also the section on history and geography of the country.

The battle map also moves on the web pages of various sites of the official Israeli government. On the site of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) the reference to the borders of Great Israel is the norm in the representation of territory.

fig.3 Caratteristiche geografiche d'Israele dal Ministero degli Esteri

Carta 3

Nella descrizione del moderno Israele (Modern Israel within boundaries and cease-fire lines) al 2004 (Carta 3) il sito MFA definiva i Territori della West Bank, Gaza e Golan come "sotto controllo israeliano e con status finale in sospeso". Gerusalemme non era inclusa in questa categoria e, secondo la carta, rientrava a pieno diritto nel territorio israeliano. Also in the description accompanying the paper, the calculation of the territorial extension of Israel was computed tacitly part of the occupied territories. The area of \u200b\u200bIsrael proper, ie the sum of the surface of six districts that make up the state, is approximately 20,700 sq km, the site instead reported an area of \u200b\u200b22,145 sq km .

Map 4

In 2006, the paper of the same section of the site (Israel Within boundaries and cease-fire lines) was updated or replaced with an even more cryptic, without description, or colors that vaguely recall the demarcation of the Green Line (Map 4) .

The website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel is just one example among many, similar to other cards available on the official websites link to Article Many official maps fail to show Israeli Occupied Territories Philip Weiss.

Geographical Narrative in Israel-Palestine is both subtle and effective weapon in the commission of mutual hatred. The minds of the people on both sides of che dall'altra vengono plasmate in modo distorto ed in questo la cartografia presente nei testi scolastici svolge un ruolo incisivo.

 Carta 5 Palestina senza Israele

Un giovane palestinese che sia stato educato alla sistematica negazione dell'esistenza dello Stato d'Israele difficilmente potrà contribuire a quell' ideale processo di convergenza necessario al raggiungimento di una qualche forma di convivenza che non implichi sopraffazione; parimenti un colono o un futuro soldato israeliano svolgerà "meglio" if his work has been accustomed since childhood to think of his state in terms of geography and history of Great Israel, also will feel brave in the commission of the greatest injustice, because it will be assumed (wrongly) in the right part of who does his duty to reclaim what belongs to him. It happens that some young Israeli soldiers in the first period of their service to notice the dramatic difference between what was taught in schools and the reality with which they are called to confront once in uniform. The job of the soldier becomes so unbearable for them to force them to leave the service knowing how serious Israel, the consequences of that choice. The vast majority of young soldiers but still there on the battlefield, making each day tribute to his bad teachers.

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Elements of this cycle:

Introduction to the course of post "notes on the political geography of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "

The battle map part 1: Zionism and cartography.

The battle map Part 2: Cards as Weapons in Israel-Palestine.

A look at political lawns d ' Israel.

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From The National Interest an essay by John Mearsheimer of the problems of U.S. grand strategy in the last two decades.

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Imperial Portraits by Design: a kiss. The community

was 1979 and during the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the GDR, Regis Bossu captured in this iconic shot the kiss between Brezhnev and President of East Germany Erich Honecker ( a sign of traded mutual respect among fellow socialists) . The moment was captured by many photographers, but apparently only Bossu, waving from the back with his Nikon 80-200 mm telephoto lens, was able to steal the soul of the moment imprinting on a film, Kodak Tri-X b \\ n. ;

"The Kiss" was over the front pages of Western newspapers and about a decade later, in the weeks that followed the "fall" of the Berlin Wall, the Russian artist Dmitry Vrubel painted it on a piece of the barrier accompanying the image with the words "God help me survive this deadly love" . "The brotherly kiss" was the title of the Vrubel, was restored in November 2009 and is among the most famous paintings of the complex art of 'East Side Gallery .

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Il mondo del crescente e della stella

Il simbolo del crescente (Or crescent) and the star is in the group of the most important and distinctive emblems of Islam at least since 1453, when Sultan Mehmet II, after the conquest of Constantinople, made the symbols of the Ottoman Empire and the Islamic religion. Unfortunately for the Turks, would not be fair to say that primarily the Ottoman Empire as a symbol is born, it seems, rather, that the Turks have embraced the crescent already widespread and used as a symbol of Byzantium, and even pre-Islamic origins. The many stories that tell of those origins variegatamente giving it completely to the Ottoman Empire, not surprisingly of course always have a mythical and legendary. The most famous of these tells that the first sultan Ottoman, Osman, dreamed of seeing a crescent uscirgli from the chest and grow more and more, to expand from one end of the world ( and who knows what he looked like, this world ), but in this story is missing a reference to the star. The justification of religious symbology, however, lies in the history of the first revelation of God to Muhammad, in a night in which the celestial phenomenon manifested itself. The use of pre-Islamic symbol, however, is historically testified, was a symbol associated with female deities at different times, from the Mesopotamian Ishtar to Greek Artemis to the Roman Diana. Byzantium itself was under the protection of the goddess Artemis, who according to legend had appeared in the form of a bright crescent in the sky at night when the people of the city was able to break the siege of Philip of Macedon by digging a tunnel, with the help of lunar illumination. The emperor Constantine in 330, to add the star as a symbol of Mary and devoted the city to the Virgin Mary. Which brings us to the Ottomans, who conquered the city in 1453, it maintained the emblem as a symbol of pagan symbol Islamic experienced widespread throughout the empire.
To date, however, the symbols of the Ottoman Turkish flag (and growing 5-pointed star) appear only once in the flag of Algeria, Mauritania and Tunisia. Corollary can be deduced that although the star and are counted in the growing Islamic symbolism, Tunisia and Algeria are the only Arab states to have them adopted in their national flag. It 'still can bind to the growing Arab world where it would play in the geographical sense of the so-called Fertile Crescent (which has objected to Turkey, with Cyprus to take the place of the 5-pointed star).
States which geographically make up this territory, however, to use their flag colors typically associated with the Arab Revolt (white, red and black horizontal bands) and are excluded from the calculation that you want to do here.

Il crescente e la stella nella geografia della Mezzaluna fertile

L'attuale bandiera della Turchia

Il prototipo dell'attuale bandiera della Turchia (che i turchi chiamano ay yildiz , luna e stella) fu introdotta dal sultano Selim III nel 1793. Sin dal Medioevo, i turchi avevano utilizzato drappi rossi, senza alcun simbolo, ma fondamentalmente non era mai esistita una bandiera "ufficiale" dell'impero. E quella di Selim III, infatti, apparteneva originariamente alla marina ottomana. Il sultano cambiò lo sfondo da verde a rosso, ma la stella verrà aggiunta solo successivamente, nel 1844, ed avrà 8 punte che solo dopo diventeranno 5. Anche la stella ad 8 punte è un simbolo islamico: è chiamata Rub' al-Hizb ed è usata per la divisione coranica o per indicare la fine di un capitolo in calligrafia araba. La stella a 5 punte, invece, sta probabilmente a simboleggiare i 5 pilastri della religione islamica.

La bandiera dell'Impero Ottomano con la stella a 8 punte

Sono numerose le bandiere che originano da quella turca. Qui sono state raggruppate in national flags, flags of non-sovereign autonomous entities of flags and flags of international organizations. The symbolism of course, occur. Green, for example, is the primary color of Islam (occasionally replaced by red). Another recurring color is blue-the color of Tamerlane and Mongol-turkish people in general. Was associated also to the god Tengri, the creator and patron of the Mongols that they called Lord of the sky blue.
Describing now the flags turkish-derived, I assume the explanation on the adoption of colors and symbols in the interpretation given so far, otherwise it will explain the possible alternative use.


National flags:

Algeria

The current flag is that the government was in exile between 1958 and 1962 and with the ' independence from France became the flag of the Algerian state. The three colors (green, white and red), represented according to the historian M. Yahia the idea of \u200b\u200bunification between the three North African states of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

Azerbaijan

The first flag of 1917 was identical to that of Turkey, except for the star with 8 points which is still present and is probably 8 people Turks (Azeris, Cumani, giagatai, Kazakhs, Turks, selgucidi, Tatar and Turkmen). According to the nationalist leader Ali Bey Hussein Zade, the blue represents the aspiration to Turkification, green and red Islamization modernization on the European model.

Northern Cyprus

The flag is wholly derived from Turkish.

Comoros

Stars and horizontal stripes represent the islands. In the previous flags, the increasing with the 4 stars was already there, usually on a red or green, in the penultimate version, camped on either side the names of Allah and Muhammad.

Libya

Green, as well as a symbol of Islamic piety, became the national color of Libya. The original of 1951, the foundation of the kingdom, had the stars and the increasing horizontal tricolor green, black (colors, respectively, of the flag Tripoli until the Italian occupation of 1912 and the flag of the Emirate of Cyrenaica, with both symbol and star of low to high) and red (representing the third region, the Fezzan). Today, the same flag, but in vertical strips, is adopted by the Pakistan Peoples Party. Next will be adopted the colors of the Arab Revolt and the symbols will be lost, and only in '77, the year after Gaddafi's Green Revolution, will be adopted the current flag.

The flag of the Kingdom of Libya in 1951

The flag of Tripoli until 1912

The flag of the emir of Cyrenaica

Maldives

former sultanate, the colors of the flag represent the blood shed by national heroes (red), and life, progress, prosperity (green).

Malaysia

Only the Islamic faith is growing. The star in this case, has as many points as the states of the federation, of which Singapore was originally part. In fact, the flag of Singapore is still kept growing stars (on a red and white banners in the colors fairly typical south Asian), but have lost their religious significance.

The flag of Singapore

Mauritania

Qui il verde dello sfondo e l'oro dei simboli incarnano una doppia identità: islamica ed africana (verde e giallo sono due colori della terna cromatica panafricana).

Pakistan

Come riportato nel sito del governo pakistano, lo spazio geometricamente occupato dai colori verde e bianco rappresenta rispettivamente la maggioranza mussulmana e le minoranze. Il crescente e la stella rappresentano anche progresso e conoscenza.

Tunisia

The white disk in the center is a symbol of the sun. The flag is clearly inspired by the Ottoman Empire, as was the will of the Bey of Tunis.

Turkmenistan

The band on the hoist side is formed by 5 mats (gul) for which the country and famous, probably a symbol of many tribes .

Uzbekistan

The growing use of reference here would be the rebirth of the nation (The first independent nation in Central Asia from the USSR), rather than to its Muslim majority. The 12 stars in star could represent the 12 oblasts in which the state is divided or sorted according to the calendar month Navruz. The blue refers to ethnicity as well as Turkish, even the vital importance of a resource such as water, among other things, that water is a highly topical and crucial issue for Uzbekistan, given the geographical position State and the project Kyrgyz Kambara 2, on the management of the River Syr Darya and in the past has even led the Government of Uzbekistan to threats of war towards the completion of the project.

Morocco

Although not derived from the Turkish flag, the flag seems to mention the case of Morocco, whose meaning is easily intelligible in the light of what has been said, Solomon's seal red (star pentacle, a symbol of union between God and Country ) on a green background.


Flags of non-sovereign:

East Turkestan

Islamic Republic of Turkestan (1921-1924)

The 9 strips were emblematic of Turkic peoples in the region. While, as mentioned, the blue represents the world's pre-Islamic and Mongol-turkish orange and the Uyghurs.

Turkmeneli Iraqi

Western Sahara

Added for completeness, because although color and texture of the flag are those of the Arab Revolt, the moon stands at the center and the Islamic star.

Flags di entità autonome:

Azad Kashmir

Come descritto nel sito ufficiale del governo dell'entità autonoma dell'Azad Kashmir, i 3/4 dello sfondo verde rappresentano il 75% della popolazione musulmana; il restante quarto arancione (talvota oro) rappresenta il 25% composto dalle minoranze del paese. Le strisce ne descrivono l'orografia: verdi come le valli, bianche come le cime innevate.
 


Bandiere di Organizzazioni Internazionali:

Organizzazione della Conferenza Islamic

Arab League

curious that none of the Member States have the crescent (in this case without star) on its flag national.


As evidence, however, the Ottoman and Arab character of symbols, is the fact that there have also been used in the territories of the former, look to the cases of the rebel Bosnian flag in 1830, then adopted as the national independence in 1878

or the flag of Egypt under British protectorate (1914-1922)

and that of the Kingdom of Egypt (1922).

It 's interesting that during the Egyptian uprising for independence in 1919 saw the flag adopted by the movement joined the growing Islamic extremism and the Christian cross: crisitani Copts and Muslims were united not only ideally but figuratively under the same flag in the name of national independence.

But if the rising star and are widely recognized as emblems del'Islam, come mai nè il teocratico Iran nè l'Arabia Saudita, che ospita ben due città sante, ne hanno traccia sulle loro bandiere? La risposta è che, trattandosi di simboli pre-islamici, vengono rifiutati perché sostanzialmente pagani. A sopperire, simboli ed iscrizioni di diverso genere testimoniano comunque l'incrollabile devozione per Allah.

La bandiera dell'Iran

La bandiera dell'Arabia Saudita

Da notare, curiosamente, che comunque il fenomeno astronomico, così come rappresentato sulle bandiere, sarebbe impossibile ad osservarsi: se immaginaniamo il crescente come parte del disco lunare intero, la stella è così vicina da essere praticamente sul disco, quindi spazialmente e prospetticamente davanti ad esso, tra il satellite e la Terra.

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