‘Hebrew Tarzans’ from Arthur Koestler's Thieves in the Night to Netflix and Fauda

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61
Author(s):  
Jeremy Salt
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Central Elements ◽  
Four Books ◽  
Letting Go ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
As If

Core elements of Zionist propaganda justifying the colonisation of Palestine are exploited again in the four books critiqued in this article ( Thieves in the Night; Promise and Fulfilment. Palestine 1917–1949; Exodus; and The Haj). For propaganda to be viable, however, it has to be adapted to changing circumstances. Recent Israeli television dramas such as Fauda (Chaos) have realigned images without letting go of the central elements in the propaganda war. In Fauda, Israeli killings in the occupied territories are virtually advertised, as if the state wants viewers to see what it is capable of doing in the name of combatting ‘terrorism’.

Constantine as a ‘Bishop’

1947 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 127-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Seston
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Obiter Dictum ◽  
The Church ◽  
As If

The author of the Vita Constantini (traditionally and persistently identified with Eusebius, despite the silence of St. Jerome), tells us that Constantine ‘at a banquet he was giving to the bishops declared that he too was a bishop. He added these words which I heard with my own ears: ἀλλ᾽ ὑμεῖϛ μὲν τῶν εἴσω τῆϛ ἐκτὸϛ ὑπὸ θεοῦ καθεσταμένοϛ ἐπίσκοπϛ ἂν εἴην ’.In attempts to define the relations between the first Christian emperor and the Church, no phrase is more frequently quoted than this obiter dictum. In the sixteenth century the French scholar Henri de Valois rendered τῶν ἐκτόϛ as if it were the genitive of τὰ ἐκτόϛ, and since then it has been the practice to regard Constantine as an ‘évèque du dehors’: the Emperor either exercised episcopal functions though not consecrated, or supervised mundane affairs (that is, the State), after the fashion of a bishop, or else held from God a temporal commission for ecclesiastical government, the bishops retaining control of dogma, ethics and discipline. Each of these three distinct interpretations is equally admissible.

Playing through the Apocalypse: Preparing Children for Mass Disasters in Japan and Chile

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-259
Author(s):  
Chika Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Mass Disasters ◽  
As If

Abstract There is a growing trend to prepare children for future disasters. A Japanese nonprofit organization has developed an event called Iza! Kaeru Caravan, which includes games that teach children and their families how to survive disasters, from earthquakes to floods. Many disaster experts and government officials from other countries have now implemented the Caravan in their own contexts. Based on ethnographic research in Japan and Chile, this article shows how playful methods in disaster preparedness orient children, and by proxy their families, to accept an apocalyptic future, helping the neoliberal state buy time. Advocates of disaster preparedness in Japan and Chile accept that state actors will not come immediately to the rescue. Playful methods mobilize children and their families to take responsibility for their own survival through the subjunctive work of the “as if.” Ambiguously positioned between fun and education, playful methods of preparedness command attention from children and adults—what I call “attentive play”—as they frame and reframe the games to figure out, “Is this play?” Ultimately, the article shows that attentive play buys time for the state to temporarily defer its responsibilities to citizens, but the ambiguity of play can also exceed its ideological effects.

scholarly journals Makna Penting Demokrasi dan Musyawarah Bagi Keutuhan Bangsa Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
NAVI GITA MAULIDA
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
National State ◽  
Unitary State ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
The World ◽  
State Construction ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Historical Trajectory ◽  
As If

The Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI) based on the historical trajectory of the struggle, has the only state construction in the world where the nation is born first, then forms the state. The first President of the Republic of Indonesia Ir. Soekarno emphasized that the Unitary State is a National State. The purpose of the Indonesian nation to be born, independent, and to form a state has one goal, the will to elevate the dignity and life of the Indonesian people (Indonesian People's Sovereignty). Through an analysis of the reality of today's life, the Indonesian nation has lived in a condition of life order as if it were the same as a democratic state, namely that the first state was formed and the nation was born later. So that the sovereignty of the Indonesian people based on the principles of deliberation and representation has not been able to be realized.

scholarly journals Sonhando Moçambique

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (33) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Andréa Vilela Gouvêia Quadra
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The People ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Living State ◽  
Colonization Process ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
As If ◽  
The Invisible

<p>Como nação que lentamente se liberta do jugo da colonização, mas que  já foi (e ainda é) marcada pela cultura do outro, Moçambique tem, na  literatura, autores que conseguiram evidenciar a tensão existente entre a  tradição e a “cultura nova” que se infiltrou no território africano  principalmente a partir do processo de colonização. É de forma sensível  e desvestida de preconceitos que um desses autores, Mia Couto, em seu  romance <em>Terra sonâmbula</em>, aponta a existência dessa teia de influências  que atua na construção da identidade do povo moçambicano. Oral/ escrita;  sonho/ lógica e racionalidade: dois pares de aspectos que, se em princípio  parecem se constituir como dicotômicos, acabam por revelar, na obra, a  defesa de uma mestiçagem como condição harmonizadora da tensão entre  tradição e “cultura nova”. O caráter mestiço da nova Moçambique seria um terceiro “estado de alma” do povo; na obra, um estado <em>sonhambulante</em>:  estado de quem sonha, mas age como se estivesse acordado. Assim o  visível e o invisível, o possível e o impossível formam um novo <em>estado  de vivência</em>, onde seres e acontecimentos fantásticos dividem espaço (de  forma mais concreta que se pode pensar) com a guerra.</p> <p>As a nation that slowly frees itself from the colonization, but has been  (and it still is) stamped by other cultures, Mozambique has, in its literature,  autors that were able to show the tension between tradition and the new  culture, that had entered in Africa manly by the colonization process.  It´s in a sensitive way, with no prejudice that one of these authors, Mia  Couto, in his romance <em>Terra sonâmbula</em>, shows the existence of this  influence net that performs the identity building process of the people  from Mozambique. Oral/ written, dream/ logic and sense: two pairs of  aspects that, if in the beginning seem to be opposites, in this work, they  reveal themselves the defense of the halfcasteness as a balancing condition  of the tension between tradition and new culture. The halfcaste side of  the new Mozambique would be a third “soul state” of the people; in the  work, a “sonhambulante” state (this word is formed by three words:  dream sleep-walker and walking): the state of one who dreams, but acts  as if were awake. Thus, the visible and the invisible, possible and impossible  form a new living state, where beings and fantastic events share the  spaces (in a more concrete way that one may think) with the war.</p>

scholarly journals On some circumstances relating to the economy of bees

1833 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 346-347
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Compact Mass ◽  
Whole Number ◽  
Permanent Settlement ◽  
The One ◽  
Hollow Tree ◽  
As If

The author had already stated, in a former communication to the Royal Society, his having noticed that for several days previous to the settling of a swarm of bees in the cavity of a hollow tree adapted to their reception, a considerable number of these insects were incessantly employed in examining the state of the tree, and particularly of every dead knot above the cavity which appeared likely to admit water. He has since had an opportunity of observing that the bees who performed this task of inspection, instead of being the same individuals as he had formerly supposed, were in fact a continual succession of different bees; the whole number in the course of three days being such as to warrant the inference that not a single labouring bee ever emigrates in a swarm without having seen its proposed future habitation. He finds that the same applies not only to the place of permanent settlement, but also to that where the bees rest temporarily, soon after swarming, in order to collect their numbers. The swarms, which were the subjects of Mr. Knight’s experiments, showed a remarkable disposition to unite under the same queen. On one occasion a swarm, which had arisen from one of his hives, settled upon a bush at a distance of about twenty-five yards; but instead of collecting together into a compact mass, as they usually do, they remained thinly dispersed for nearly half an hour; after which, as if tired of waiting, they singly, one after the other, and not in obedience to any signal, arose and returned home. The next morning a swarm issued from a neighbouring hive, and proceeded to the same bush upon which the other bees had settled on the preceding day; collecting themselves into a mass, as they usually do when their queen is present. In a few minutes afterwards a very large assemblage of bees rushed from the hive from which the former swarm had issued, and proceeded directly to the one which had just settled, and instantly united with them. The author is led from these and other facts to conclude that such unions of swarms are generally, if not always, the result of previous concert and arrangement.

scholarly journals Cosmopolitan Sophistry: Grounding Politics in Disorder and Uncertainty

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-223
Author(s):  
Jon Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Chaos Theory ◽  
Evolutionary Ecology ◽  
The State ◽  
Legitimate Authority ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Death ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Moment ◽  
As If

Conceptions of the State, Nation and politics, which are actually in play in ‘the West’, usually descend from totalitarian models which are primarily Platonic and monotheistic in origin. They aim for unity, harmony, wholeness, legitimate authority and the rejection of conflict, however much they claim to represent multiplicity. By expressing a vision of order, such models drive an idea of planning by prophecy as opposed to divination, as if the future was certain within limits and the trajectory was smooth. Chaos theory and evolutionary ecology shows us that this conception of both society and the future is inaccurate. I will argue that it is useful to look at the pre-socratic philosophers, in particular the so-called sophists Gorgias and Protagoras and Heraclitus with their sense of ongoing flux, the truth of the moment, and the necessary power of rhetoric in the leading forth of temporary functional consensus within the flux. This ongoing oscillation of conflict provides social movement and life rather than social death.

The Retribution of Identity: Colonial Politics in Fauda

AJS Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Omri Ben-Yehuda
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Multilayered Structure ◽  
The State ◽  
Vicious Circle ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Suicide Bombings ◽  
Second Intifada ◽  
Occupied Territories ◽  
A Site ◽  
State Of Israel

In its first season, Israeli television thriller Fauda proclaimed an utter symmetry between Israel “proper” and its Occupied Territories, by humanizing Hamas militants and treating them as equals to the Israeli characters. Throughout the story the Jewish warrior's body becomes a site for the detonation of explosives and a potential vehicle for suicide bombings, in a false but intriguing reenactment of the trauma of the second intifada, which has been repressed in Israeli consciousness. In this unwitting manifestation of Jewish martyrdom, the façade of the rule of law in the State of Israel is dismantled in what seems like a religious battle between clans. The discourse of pain in the series suggests a stream of constant retribution in a vicious circle that can never historicize the allegedly eternal conflict and work through its traumatic residues. Nonetheless, this dynamic of retribution and martyrdom also informs a multilayered structure whereby the secular, modern Jew returns to his roots by engaging with Arabness in the theatre of mistaʿaravim: in becoming Arab he also becomes, finally, a Jew.

Art.23 Provisional Application

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casey-Maslen Stuart ◽  
Clapham Andrew ◽  
Giacca Gilles ◽  
Parker Sarah
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
Provisional Application ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
The Law

This chapter explores Article 23 of the ATT, which considers the provisional application of states to the ATT. When signing, ratifying, accepting, approving, or acceding to the ATT, any state may declare that it will provisionally apply the key elements regarding prohibition of transfer and export and export assessment as set out in Articles 6 and 7 of the ATT, respectively. Such provisional application generally extends until the state becomes party to the treaty. This article is broader in scope compared to similar provisions in other disarmament treaties and is more far-reaching than provisional application as foreseen by the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. The opportunity provisionally to apply core elements of the ATT may prove particularly attractive to states that are among the first to ratify the treaty or to signatory states whose domestic ratification process may be expected to be prolonged or delayed.

scholarly journals A First Line of Defence? Vigilant surveillance, participatory policing and the reporting of ‘suspicious’ activity

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
The State ◽  
First Line ◽  
Current Role ◽  
Security Practices ◽  
Terrorist Acts ◽  
Suspicious Activity ◽  
As If

What is at stake when citizens are encouraged to deploy vigilant surveillance and report what they consider to be unusual and “suspicious” activity? This article explores the current role of vigilance in contemporary Western security practices aimed at battling terrorist acts and major crime. It does so by critically analysing official constructions of suspiciousness, the responsibilisation process of participatory policing, and the assignments of prejudiced amateur detectives. It concludes, firstly, that the agency offered by political campaigns such as “If You See Something, Say Something” is highly illusive since the act of reporting simply demarcates where participation ends, and where fear and paranoia are turned into legitimate intelligence, enabling the state to exercise authoritative action and preemptive violence. Secondly, these kinds of vigilance initiatives also nurture a normalisation of suspicion towards strangers since the encouragements to be aware of anything-and-anyone deemed “out of the ordinary”, as well as the tools for reporting such suspicions, increasingly creep into the mundane realms of everyday life.

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