After watching the Writing on the Walls videos, understanding that their are numerous ways to relay a message and a story. The website that allows the public to put messages on the wall, is such a peaceful way to speak ones mind without using violence to prove a point. I find that in our modern society many people use methods that are less peaceful to show others how they feel about a topic or to prove a political message. Some of the messages on the walls are so deep and emotionally stimulating that one cant help but want to know the story behind the messages and pictures on the wall.
After reading Noura's thesis, it helped me get a clearer understanding of terms that I would hear and read but never questioned. Homeland, for example, has a much deeper meaning than just the physical territory. Homeland has a very "emotional dimension that allows the nation to promote sentiments such as a sense of belonging, memory of space, feelings of historical continuity and possession of the land (8)." These elements are what the Israels and Palestinians value in the land of Jerusalem. The need to have an exclusive right and historical legacy to the land is what makes reconciliation very difficult. I also found it very appropriate to define what the definition of Israeli and Palestinian are, many assume everyone understands the boundaries of what make up the varying sects. Promoting exclusion by feeling legitimacy over the "other", and the two nationalisms with deep rooted ties to the territory "through methods of history, collective past, religion and political ideology (7)" are what make it difficult to look past each owns narrative and understand everyone has theri own story that must be respected.
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