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  • 2 - The Modern World, or Interstate, System

  • from Part I - The Encoding and Production of Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street
  • Yael Warshel, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book:
    Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
    Published online:
    08 July 2021
    Print publication:
    29 July 2021, pp 82-87

  • Summary

    This chapter offers a theoretical overview of the modern world system: a system ordered by states rather than nations. The normative acceptance of the unit and design of the state internal to this, the interstate system, proscribes that people should live sedentarized lives within clearly demarcated state borders, governed by statebearing nations ruling over them. Sesame Street’s adaptation of the interstate system, in turn, meant that Israeli citizens (Jewish and Palestinian citizens of the state of Israel) were bound to their street-state, Rechov Sumsum, and later, Sippuray Sumsum, and Palestinian citizens (Palestinians citizens of the non-state institution of the Palestinian Authority), to Shara’a Simsim, and later, Hikayat Simsim. If citizens crossed one-street-state into the other, the assumption was that they would necessarily return “home” to their own bordered street-state.