Dialectical Approach

The Palestine and Israel conflict has been carrying on for the better part of the last century. This is a conflict that seemingly has no end in sight. Multiple wars between Palestine and Israel have only complicated things for the inhabitants of the land they are fighting over. Due to the second war in 1967, Israel is now in control of the West Bank and the Gaza strip. This is particularly important to the conflict and how the dialectical perspective plays a part of it because these are two areas that many Palestinians call home, leaving them under Israel rule.

The dialectical approach is way of looking at intercultural communication that unveils all of the complexities and nuances that can easily be missed without purposefully and thoughtfully looking at what is transpiring, using this technique on the Palestine and Israel conflict will give us a much more holistic understanding of the conflict. As the textbook states, the best place to start when looking at this conflict is to look at the four components

When discussing communication, we are not just talking about verbal cues, but non-verbal cues as well. The ethnography of communication is a good tool to use for this specific conflict because it looks at the symbolic significance of particular culture groups gestures and actions. This helps identify their rules and patterns as a culture. The dialectical perspective states that culture and communication are interrelated and reciprocal. Culture affects the way and the means that we communicate. Since Palestinians and Israelis are from vastly different cultures, it is safe to assume that they communicate quite differently as well. While not true for all the population, most Palestinian Arabs speak Arabic and Most of the Jewish Israelis speak Hebrew. This can get tricky, especially when living in the same territory and being ruled by people who speak another