Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2009
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Abstract
This article reveals the complex historical and cultural processes that have led to the symbiotic identification between pine trees and Jewish people in Israel/Palestine. It introduces three tree donation techniques used by Israel, then proceeds to discuss the meaning of nature in Israel, as well as the meaning of planting and rooting in the context of the Zionist project. The article concludes by reflecting on the ways that pine trees absent Palestinian presence and memory from the landscape, and explains how Palestinian acts of aggression toward these pine landscapes relate to the Israel/Palestine relationship.
Publication Title
Natural Resources Journal
First Page
317
Last Page
365
Recommended Citation
Irus Braverman,
Planting the Promised Landscape: Zionism, Nature, and Resistance in Israel/Palestine,
49
Nat. Resources J.
317
(2009).
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