SETTLEMENT MYTH AND SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY - INTERRELATIONSHIPS IN THE ZIONIST LAND OF ISRAEL

Settlement frontiers may bring about the production of political settl ement myths leading future settlers to frontier settlements. Such myth s may develop through three phases of geographical interpretation: (i) the realization or consumption of previous myths, (ii) ideological lo ading of the landscape and (iii) the emergence of mythical space. Thes e phases, notably the latter, are expressed in various outlets of the collective memory and civil religion. Zionist political settlement myt hs may be interpreted as dealing with environmental struggles, social development and security. These myths are interrelated with several ch ains of local or regional settlement processes and events: produced my th comes to be consumed by later settlers. But the creation of such my ths emanates from the urban cores of Jaffa, Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem.