Rethinking Approaches to Conflict Transformation: Understanding the Zionist Identity Barrier to Peace in the Israel/Palestine Conflict

This article discusses how processes through which some Israeli and Diaspora Jews resist the state-inscribed national identity, Zionism, relate to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.This discussion is held against the backdrop of a critical approach to the modern international system of states, and its influence in engendering and maintanance of the conflict.This article also challenges views which consider the concept of identity as either static, or, if dynamic, too complex to consider, discarding it from political context analisys. It points out the importance of taking the identity factor into account in approaches to conflict resolution.The processes described in this article exposes the non-essential nature of Zionist national identity, and the challenges that Individuals going through it face in dealing with the larger Jewish majority which sustains the state-inscribed identity. Defensive reactions on the part of the Jewish majority and the state attempt to delegitimize such individuals. Conversely, data from a field research realized by the author of this article show these claims are void. They show such changes come about as consequence of gaining awareness of contradictions between the declared values in the nationalistculture and the realities it produces on the ground.This article also points to the problems derived from amalgamtion of Jewish and Zionist identities, and their uses in delegitimizing discenting voices.The article points out that not all reactions to gaining awareness of incongruences are the same, optionsoften being made between keeping one’s moral values and relinquishing one’s identity, or keeping identity and relinquishing one’s values, wihch in the case of Israeli and Diaspora Jews, means becoming more radicalized, often assuming openly racist convictions. Relation between identity and morality are drawn from writings of various authors, pointing out how the importance of moral coherence in identitarian affiliation. Political knowledge is discussed in terms of how awareness of changes in historical narrative of facts can reflect on one’s world views. Zionism is critiqued by looking at three of its pillars: Jewishness, security / militarism, and hegemonic Zionism, exposing patterns that Zionism has of modern European nationaisms, a victimhood mentality and a dominant Colonialist or Orientalist world view.The unsuspecting trust with which Israeli and Diaspora Jews accept this dicorsively-constructed and state-inscribednational identity complicates addressing the distortions in perception as well as Jewish responsibilities in the conflict. Few become aware of the discrepancies mentioned, go through an identity crisis a which usually takes. The majority that does not have the opportunity to go through such process, remain with a national identity which does not share many of the universal values as most of international community, and classically liberal principles of citizenship that would forbid discrimination on any basis are seen to them as ‘destructive’ of the Jewish state. Approaches to conflict resolution, which traditionally do not take into identity dinamics, are doomed to continuousely deal with defensive / aggressive stances prompted by perception of threat. Such approaches tend to focus on negotiating between the sides, while investing in intiatives which attempt to universalize particualristic values within the identity-driven society would contribute more to a real shift in the situation. Such initiatives are civil society iniciatives within the Jewish constituency composed of individuals who went through the processes describes in this article.Such intra-Jewish uni-national initiatives for change show greater potential than bi-national negotiation

Waste Not, Want Not: The Potential for Urban Water Conservation in California

The largest, least expensive, and most environmentally sound source of water to meet California's future needs is the water currently being wasted in every sector of our economy. This report, "Waste Not, Want Not," strongly indicates that California's urban water needs can be met into the foreseeable future by reducing water waste through cost-effective water-saving technologies, revised economic policies, appropriate state and local regulations, and public education

Will-O-The-Wisp Rag

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The Teaching of Metrology: The genesis and the epilogue of a degree

Metrology, as a measurement science and its applications, has a widely recognized importance in all areas of human activity where accurate measurements are required to ensure user confidence and universality. The emergence of new technologies, new methods, new products and new areas of development have definitively placed m etrology as a fundamental s cie nce in all areas of human activity. Associated with the reasons already mentioned, one cannot fail to mention the economic question of globalization that was only possible due to all the activities related to m etrology. As a scientific area, m etrology strengthens the development of measurement capabilities, and plays a key role in innovation, quality assurance of products and decision making. This work approaches the teaching of m etrology in Portugal in the first institution of higher education of the c ountry to offer in its training a bachelor s and a master s degree in Instrumentation and Metrology Engineering. So, this work analyses the past, the present and the future of this branch of engineering from the perspective of the first institution of high er education teaching it in Portugal. The solution to solve the gaps found was to diversify the offer of metrology training, but also to spread the importance of this science to students in other study cycles.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

[Psychoneurotische person in der Zahnarztlicher praxis]

Autori žele upozoriti na problem psihoneurotičnih pacijenata, koji se javljaju u sve većem broju tražeći stomatološku zaštitu, kao i na način postupanja s njima. Zalažu se za stručni pristup psihoneurotičnom pacijentu, koji bi bez sumnje olakšao rad stomatologa.The authors wish to emphasize the problem of the growing number of psychoneurotic pationts who are appearying for stomatological treatment and the manner or methods for their acceptance. They are interceding for professional approach towards psychoneurotic patients which would undoubtedly be of great help to dental surgeons.Die Autoren wollen die Problematik der psychoneurotischen Patienten, die in immer grosserer Zahl stomatologischen Schutz suchen, hervorheben und gleichzeitig auf die entsprechende Behandlungsweise hinweisen. Sie treten fur eine fachmannische Zuwendung zum psychoneurotischen Patienten ein, was die Arbeit des Stomatologen ohne Zweifel erleichtert

Threshold concentration for H blistering in defect free W

Lattice distortion induced by high concentration of H is believed to be precursor of H blistering in single crystalline W (SCW) during H isotope irradiation. However, the critical H concentration needed to trigger bond-breaking of metal atoms presents a challenge to measure. Using density functional theory, we have calculated the formation energy of a vacancy and a self-interstitial atom (SIA) in supersaturated defect-free SCW with various H concentrations. When the ratio of H:W exceeds 1:2, the formation of both vacancies and self-interstitials becomes exothermic, meaning that spontaneous formation of micro-voids which can accommodate molecular H2 will occur. Molecular H2 is not allowed to form, and it is not needed either at the very initial stage of H blistering in SCW. With supersaturated H, the free volume at the vacancy or SIA is greatly smeared out with severe lattice distortion and more H can be trapped than in the dilute H case.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure