# Palestinian Self-Determination

> Palestinian Self-Determination is mapped as the unresolved homeland: it concentrates competing national projects, security claims, dispossession, occupation, resistance, memory, law, and international power.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:israel-palestine:palestinian-self-determination` |
| Family | Israel / Palestine |
| Domain | Contested History |
| Kind | field |
| Archetypal function | The Unresolved Homeland |
| Epistemic status | sourced_claim; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Palestinian Self-Determination belongs to the **Israel / Palestine** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Palestinian Self-Determination concentrates competing national projects, security claims, dispossession, occupation, resistance, memory, law, and international power, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Palestinian Self-Determination, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Unresolved Homeland.** Palestinian Self-Determination is mapped as the unresolved homeland: it concentrates competing national projects, security claims, dispossession, occupation, resistance, memory, law, and international power.

## Gift

makes coexistence, rights, safety, return, self-determination, and accountability unavoidable questions; through Palestinian Self-Determination, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

turns human beings into symbols, erases asymmetries or atrocities, and rewards totalizing narratives; Palestinian Self-Determination can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Palestinian Self-Determination to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Unresolved Homeland enters through Palestinian Self-Determination. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Palestinian Self-Determination becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**constraint.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Palestinian Self-Determination; another player names a countermove. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **enables — Israeli Right to Security:** Israeli Right to Security enables Palestinian Self-Determination by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **constrains — Two-State Solution:** Palestinian Self-Determination constrains Two-State Solution by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **depends on — Mobilization:** Mobilization depends on Palestinian Self-Determination by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **enables — Security-Sector Defection:** Security-Sector Defection enables Palestinian Self-Determination by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **distributes costs to — Election Administration:** Palestinian Self-Determination distributes costs to Election Administration by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Palestinian Self-Determination from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Palestinian Self-Determination is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: cultural_historical, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
Sentinel factors: active conflict; contested history and law; civilian harm. These are descriptive handoff annotations, not a verdict and not a mutation of Engine Output.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Palestinian Self-Determination: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [History of the Question of Palestine](https://www.un.org/unispal/history/) — United Nations, 2026. UN-framed chronology and diplomatic record.
- [Hamas–Israel Conflict 2023: Key Legal Aspects](https://www.gov.il/en/pages/hamas-israel-conflict2023-key-legal-aspects) — Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2023. Israeli government factual and legal position; explicitly labeled as a party perspective.
- [Advisory Opinion: Occupied Palestinian Territory](https://www.icj-cij.org/case/186) — International Court of Justice, 2024. Court record and advisory opinion; advisory rather than contentious judgment.
- [Occupied Palestinian Territory](https://www.ochaopt.org/) — UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, ongoing. UN humanitarian reporting and datasets; casualty sources and methods should remain visible.
- [Foreign Terrorist Organizations](https://2021-2025.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/) — U.S. Department of State, 2025. U.S. designation list; legal classification is jurisdiction-specific and does not describe every supporter or Palestinian political actor.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
