Raíces. El olivo en la lucha identitaria entre Israel y Palestina
- 1 Universidad Europea (Madrid, España)
ISSN: 1851-992X
Year of publication: 2021
Issue Title: Más allá (y más acá) de montoneros: actores, experiencias y sentidos del peronismo revolucionario en el pasado reciente argentino
Volume: 13
Issue: 31
Type: Article
More publications in: Páginas (Rosario): Revista Digital de la Escuela de Historia
Abstract
The struggle for the Palestinian territory unfolds not only the military and political arena, but also expands to economic and cultural ones. In both Israeli and Palestinian public imagination, the olive tree has become a symbol of Palestinian identity andits resistance to military occupation. This work aims to analyze how since 1967 Palestinian nationalism has been shaped by the Israeli occupation of Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, developing different forms of resistance. Notably, it focuses on describing how West Bank’s olive groves have become allegories of Palestinian resistance to Israeli military, economic and cultural domination. In addition to its impact on the precarious economy of the occupied Palestinian territories, the symbolic weight of this tree has turned it into a tool in the battle between Palestinian inhabitants, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israeli settlers.
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