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Israel Tent Protest Outline

Historical Context:

·      Original Israeli tent protest

·      Tent protest 1991

·      Summer of 2011

o   Daphne Leef instigation

·      Cost of Living/Israeli housing policy leading up to 2011

·      Palestine/Israel conflict

·      Protest hijackers/anarchists

·      Arab immigration

o   Nationalism

Rhetorical Context:

·      Tent (symbolic)

·      Facebook group language

·      Location of protest

·      Israeli identity

·      Lower SES Identity

·      Posters at the Israeli tent camps

·      Identity vs action

Historical Context Paragraphs:

               I.         Introduction of Daphne Leef and the first tent to have the audience understand what decision started the protest

a.     Include how tent protest of 1991

              II.         Transition from the first tent to why the tent to and link to general cost of living and the housing market in Israel (policy specific)

            III.         Explain the government tensions/democratic state and how that relates to the cost of living at the time

            IV.         Expand on how corrupt government infrastructure related to the social policy

             V.         Introduce government status in relation with the Israel vs Palestine conflict and how that is a cause of corrupt infrastructure

            VI.         Finish Palestine conflict with Israel to transition to added issue of Arab immigration

          VII.         Expand how Arab immigration has caused tension embedded a sense of nationalism into Israeli protest movements

         VIII.         Explain more about nationalism and connect with tent movement

            IX.         Elaborate actions (or non-actions of tent movement) Tent movement with respect to the government as audience

a.     Include anarchist hijacking to target the government in the protest movement

              X.         Transition to disbandment of tent movement and how nothing was changed on a macro-political scale

Rhetorical Context Paragraphs:

               I.         Introduction of initial tent and its location

              II.         Explain the effectiveness of the location ties in with the effectiveness of the protest

            III.         Transition from effectiveness of the protest with the symbolic meaning of the tent in Israeli culture

            IV.         Transition from tent and Israeli culture to introduction of Israeli identity in the protest

             V.         Analyze Israeli identity with artifacts of protest language at the tent camp

            VI.         Explain how Israeli identity is different than just Jewish Identity

          VII.         Connect Israeli identity to the protest

         VIII.         Explain how protest also relies on Lower SES identity

            IX.         Elaborate on acceptance to the protest with lower SES

              X.         Transition from identity itself to effectiveness of action with identity

            XI.         Analyze effectiveness of protest with respect to the identity and connect with devotion of body rhetoric

           XII.         Comment on how the overall rhetoric of a vast number of people started with just the voice/tent of a single person to try and make a statement which changed the dynamics of the Israeli people from there on out