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Introduction to History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Introduction to History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. IAFS/JWST 3650. Outline. Categories Nations and nationalism Renan: memory and forgetting Case study. Categories. What groups are involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict? How are they related?. Categories. Not to scale. Categories.

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Introduction to History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

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  1. Introduction toHistory of the Arab-Israeli Conflict IAFS/JWST 3650

  2. Outline • Categories • Nations and nationalism • Renan: memory and forgetting • Case study

  3. Categories • What groups are involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict? • How are they related?

  4. Categories Not to scale

  5. Categories Not to scale

  6. Categories Not to scale

  7. Categories Complicated! • Israelis • Zionists Not to scale

  8. Ernest Renan,“What is a Nation?” (1882) • Possible factors: • history • race • language

  9. Ernest Renan,“What is a Nation?” (1882) • Possible factors: • religion • mutual interests • geography

  10. Ernest Renan,“What is a Nation?” (1882) • “Forgetting, I would even go so far as to say historical error, is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation.”

  11. Benedict Anderson,Imagined Communities (1983) • Nation is an “imagined political community that is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” • Role of “print capitalism” http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ world/war/images/kurdistan1.gif Kurdistan

  12. What is Nationalism? • Collective state of mind • Loyalty to nation • But . . . is it based on commonalities or differences?

  13. What is Nationalism? • Nation-state: the nationalist goal • E.g. everyone living in France is French • But some French residents identify—or are identified—as Algerian or Moroccan

  14. How is Nationalism Defined? • Territory? • Common values—or opposition to other values? • Common history? • Allegiance to one institution or group?

  15. http://boston.redsox.mlb.com;http://gonewengland.about.com; http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/1014/mlb_1975worldseries_576.jpg; http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/city_desk_wired/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/sock1.jpg http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2008/02/clemensbigbig.jpg

  16. http://boston.redsox.mlb.com;http://gonewengland.about.com; http://eastcoastwestcoast.typepad.com/eastcoastwestcoast/images/red_sox_win_globe.jpg; http://bleacherreport.com/articles/704410-the-25-biggest-blunders-in-mlb-history/page/24

  17. Conclusions • Temptation to forget • Historians’ obligation to remember • Need to think critically

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