# State of Israel

> State of Israel 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:state-of-israel` |
| Family | Israel / Palestine |
| Domain | Contested History |
| Kind | field |
| Archetypal function | The Unresolved Homeland |
| Epistemic status | sourced_claim; supported |

## Concrete anchor

State of Israel 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

State of Israel 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 State of Israel, 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.** State of Israel 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 State of Israel, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

turns human beings into symbols, erases asymmetries or atrocities, and rewards totalizing narratives; State of Israel 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 State of Israel 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 State of Israel. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when State of Israel becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**leverage.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to State of Israel; another player names a countermove. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **counteracts — Palestinian Nationalism:** Palestinian Nationalism counteracts State of Israel by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **amplifies — State of Palestine:** State of Israel amplifies State of Palestine by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **distributes costs to — Elite Pact:** Elite Pact distributes costs to State of Israel by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **mobilizes — Treaty:** State of Israel mobilizes Treaty by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

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