The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Seen Through the Prism of the Olive and Pine Tree
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Abstract
This paper will show how the Israeli-Palestinian struggle over land, both on the physical and discoursive realm, can be approached and seen through trees, namely olive and pine trees as a botanical lens. The olive tree, which is the autochtonous feature of the Mediterranean landscape, represents Palestinian Resistance and attachment to the land over generations, while the imported pine tree forests serve as a fitting arboreal metaphor for Israel’s Zionist project, as the land has been afforested at an unprecedented pace over the last century. The symbolic role of these two iconic trees is enhanced and (re)created in national discourses and popular culture, a dialectic arboreal metaphor that the article utilizes as a prism. Both the olive and the pine tree give material form to concepts of rootedness, mark ownership over a contested land, and are bearers of national memories and identities. Therefore, they act as mechanisms of national assertion, operating as national symbols. Yet, or perhaps because of that, their role transcends the symbolic dimension. Both the olive and the pine tree are in fact weaponized, used as tools of warfare in the daily and abiding Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".