# Palestinian Nationalism

> Palestinian Nationalism 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-nationalism` |
| Family | Israel / Palestine |
| Domain | Contested History |
| Kind | field |
| Archetypal function | The Unresolved Homeland |
| Epistemic status | sourced_claim; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Palestinian Nationalism 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 Nationalism 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 Nationalism, 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 Nationalism 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 Nationalism, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

turns human beings into symbols, erases asymmetries or atrocities, and rewards totalizing narratives; Palestinian Nationalism 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 Nationalism 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 Nationalism. 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 Nationalism becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**role.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Palestinian Nationalism; another player names a countermove. Initiative 5.

## Relationships

- **institutionalizes — Zionism:** Zionism institutionalizes Palestinian Nationalism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **counteracts — State of Israel:** Palestinian Nationalism counteracts State of Israel by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **counteracts — Labor Movement:** Labor Movement counteracts Palestinian Nationalism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **institutionalizes — Worker Cooperative:** Palestinian Nationalism institutionalizes Worker Cooperative by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Palestinian Nationalism from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Palestinian Nationalism 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 Nationalism: 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`.
