By Robert C. Rowland, David A. Frank
Shared Land/Conflicting id: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian image Use argues that rhetoric, ideology, and fantasy have performed key roles in influencing the improvement of the 100-year clash among first the Zionist settlers and the present Israeli humans and the Palestinian citizens in what's now Israel. The Israeli-Palestinian clash is generally taken care of as a subject of land and water. whereas those components are the middle of the clash, they're seriously prompted by means of the symbols utilized by either peoples to explain, comprehend, and convince one another. The authors argue that symbolic practices deeply stimulated the Oslo Accords, and that the leap forward within the peace procedure that ended in Oslo couldn't have happened with out a leap forward in communique styles.
Rowland and Frank enhance 4 an important rules on social improvement: the jobs of rhetoric, ideology, and delusion; the impression of symbolic elements; particular symbolic elements that performed a key function in peace negotiations; and the identity and price of standards for comparing symbolic practices in any society.
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The new symbol system simply develops over time from the old one. Thus, the symbolic system of American conservatism in the 1990s clearly has evolved from an earlier conservative perspective. In other cases, however, a new symbol system may be created in response to a strong exigency, a perceived crisis. In that circumstance, the failure of the existing system to solve the crisis leads to the development of a new (often revolutionary) system of rhetoric/ideology/myth. The three perspectives (Labor Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, and a traditional religious perspective) that dominated Israeli society from well before the birth of the nation until the late 1970s, and which still have vast influence today, can be interpreted as the social equivalent of revolutionary and sedimentary development.
The implied scientific theory found in the Old Testament cannot compete with modern physics and astronomy. 32 Chapter Two When myth is used for knowledge generation or ideological purposes, it acts as a dysfunctional public dream. 4 7 In a "true" myth, by contrast, the "truth or falsehood" exists at the symbolic level. For example, Native American stories of the trickster coyote cannot be proved false; they do not occur in the here and now but in the land of the transcendent. On the other hand, when a myth is used to make claims about the here and now, it serves a wish-fulfillment function that may create a dangerous "psychic reality insulating the culture from external 'truths/" 4 8 This has happened again and again in the Middle East, where Israelis and Palestinians have used ancient myths to deny that the other group had any right to the land.
21 Ideology If the primary function of rhetoric is to reveal the world, the combination of rhetorical terms that make up an ideology serves a fundamentally roledefining or ontological function. Humans ground understanding of their place and role in the world in ideological thought. David Apter argues that ideology binds "the community together . . " 24 Ideologies function as worldviews for ordering our understanding of the world as it is and as it could be. Mullins's definition of ideological form is especially useful.