Cultura

Israeli Discursive Mechanisms and the Deconstruction of Palestinian National Identity (2023-2025): A Critical Qualitative Analysis of Official Narratives

VOLUME 22, 2025

The Role of Targeted Infra-popliteal Endovascular Angioplasty to Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers Using the Angiosome Model: A Systematic Review

VOLUME 6, 2023

Ihab Ahmed Awais

Abstract

This study offers a critical and in-depth analysis of Israeli official discourse from 2023 to 2025, within the context of the ongoing conflict over Palestinian national identity. It argues that Israel is not only engaged in military and territorial confrontation but also waging a deliberate narrative and linguistic war aimed at dismantling the symbolic and political foundations of Palestinian identity—namely, the Right of Return, resistance, Jerusalem, statehood, sovereignty, and cultural heritage. Employing a dual framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and cultural critique, the research draws on a comprehensive qualitative dataset of 510 official documents issued by various Israeli state institutions. The findings reveal a systematic deployment of strategic lexical triggers that delegitimize Palestinian claims and reconstitute Zionist narratives as the dominant interpretive framework. The discourse emerges as a comprehensive discursive regime that redefines legal and historical realities: recasting Palestinians as demographic threats, transforming occupation into self-defense, and framing Judaization as historical reclamation while labelling resistance as terrorism. The originality of this work lies in its ability to capture a decisive discursive shift under a radical right-wing Israeli government and in its methodological synthesis of language critique with power deconstruction. This study ultimately contributes to intellectual resistance, such as the one that counters symbolic domination by deconstructing language, reviving erased narratives, and asserting the legitimacy of Palestinian identity as a struggle for justice, memory, and dignity..

Keywords : National Identity, Israeli Discursive, Palestine, Media effects, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Symbolic Settler Colonialism..
Erin Saricilar
Lecture in accounting. University of Basrah, College of Administration and Economics, Department of Accounting.

Abstract

Atherosclerotic disease significantly impacts patients with type 2 diabetes, who often present with recalcitrant peripheral ulcers. The angiosome model of the foot presents an opportunity to perform direct angiosome-targeted endovascular interventions to maximise both wound healing and limb salvage. A systematic review was performed, with 17 studies included in the final review. Below-the-knee endovascular interventions present significant technical challenges, with technical success depending on the length of lesion being treated and the number of angiosomes that require treatment. Wound healing was significantly improved with direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty, as was limb salvage, with a significant increase in survival without major amputation. Indirect angioplasty, where the intervention is applied to collateral vessels to the angiosomes, yielded similar results to direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty. Applying the angiosome model of the foot in direct angiosome-targeted angioplasty improves outcomes for patients with recalcitrant diabetic foot ulcers in terms of primary wound healing, mean time for complete wound healing and major amputation-free survival.
Keywords : Diabetic foot ulcer, angiosome, angioplasty