By Dan Rabinowitz
This is often an ethnographic account of the Palestinian electorate of Israel. Dr. Rabinowitz has written broadly at the present political scenario in Israel, and right here investigates events of friction, clash and cooperation within the new city of Natzerat Illit simply outdoors Nazareth. utilizing case stories and biographical bills, the writer offers a big contribution to our figuring out of disagreement during this region, deals a strong critique of reflexive anthropology, and unique insights into principles of ethnicity and id, nationalism and liberalism.
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A new space was thus conceived, in which hitherto unrelated pieces of data could be explained and understood, in turn injecting more validity and authority to the new category. Natzerat Illit, and for that matter Israel at large, are not specific, pre- 16 Bigoted liberals existing Palestinian spaces simply conquered and renamed by Zionism. Initially, the mountains east of Nazareth were no more than a medley of random plots and scattered fields - certainly not an earlier version of the object known today as Natzerat Illit.
This is compounded by their kinship reality, as well as by the fact that they send their children to schools, clubs and youth activities in the Palestinian town. They shop in Nazareth, obtain medical and other welfare services, worship and are buried there. Politically, Nazareth remains their centre of gravity and identification. Residence in Natzerat Illit, it must be noted, is attractive for newly-wed Palestinians not only due to the reasonable real-estate prices in the Israeli town. 21 A Palestinian resident of Natzerat Illit once explained his choice of residence in the predominantly Israeli town, contrasting the anonymity he enjoys living in a housing estate in Natzerat Illit with the situation in a similar estate in Nazareth: I would never live in a housing estate in Nazareth.
Nazareth's economy is based on the hinterland of Lower Galilee. Commerce, light industry and tourism have been the major occupations for over a century. In 1875, the Templars - a German lay order which established a number of agricultural colonies in Palestine since the 1850s completed a carriageway from the port of Haifa to Tiberias via Nazareth. This accelerated the town's development, securing its place as the main commercial centre in Galilee. 1875 also saw the appointment of Nazareth's first municipal council (Palestinian Encyclopaedia 1980:439).