# Israel / Palestine

> a contested political field of two peoples, multiple sovereignties and authorities, unequal power, security, displacement, occupation, resistance, memory, law, and international intervention

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

## Concrete anchor

Israel / Palestine 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

Competing national projects and layered authorities interact through state institutions, military force, occupation, armed groups, diplomacy, settlement, blockade, civic action, and international law.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Israel / Palestine, 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.** a contested political field of two peoples, multiple sovereignties and authorities, unequal power, security, displacement, occupation, resistance, memory, law, and international intervention

## Gift

Demands a politics capable of holding safety, rights, self-determination, memory, and accountability together.

## Wound / Shadow

Binary moral maps erase civilians, histories, asymmetries, atrocities, and internal pluralism.

## Conditions

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

## Strategic meaning

Use Israel / Palestine 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 Israel / Palestine. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** Which people, period, territory, legal status, authority, and source perspective does the claim concern?

## Game function

**constraint.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Israel / Palestine; another player names a countermove. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **depends on — Zionism:** Israel / Palestine depends on Zionism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(cultural_historical; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Preventive Detention:** Preventive Detention mobilizes Israel / Palestine by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **legitimizes — Civic Nationalism:** Israel / Palestine legitimizes Civic Nationalism by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Israel / Palestine from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Israel / Palestine 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: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
Sentinel factors: active conflict; mass civilian harm; antisemitism; anti-Palestinian racism; contested law and history. These are descriptive handoff annotations, not a verdict and not a mutation of Engine Output.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Israel / Palestine: 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`.
