ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the gap between the discourse of Israeli planning authorities, and the Palestinian discourse of rural settlement interrelations with its natural environment. It describes the production of post-colonial Palestinian environmental culture at Ein Houd, and examines the various modes of operation used to establish it. The chapter looks at the gap that lies between the Israeli planner on behalf of the planning authorities, and the Palestinian citizen of Israel—noting its non-egalitarian character, which always embody hierarchy and constructed power relations that states challenges for the critical planner. It suggests that this culture is characterized by nostalgia for an imagined and caged-in space of primal nationhood and nature. The chapter argues that nature preservation in Israel does not relate to nature on the basis of commitment through biocentric ecology, nor through social ecology, but rather manifests anthropocentric-ethnocentric ecology interrelations.
