Visual Daily is Surprise Hit in Middle East with Israel-Palestine "Vizi" that Explains Conflict Root

NEW YORK - Aug. 17, 2013 - PRLog -- The editors of Visual Daily (http://www.visualdaily.com), the daily newssite on Facebook that is about to go beta, were stunned by the swell of interest from the Middle East when they released their Vizi of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

A Vizi is a simplified infographic that captures the essence of a story in a visual. These simplified images distill the essence of a newsstory's structure and dynamic with an intuitive format.
 
"In the Israel-Palestine Vizi, we explain the conflict in terms of regilious origins and history - as well as land,"  says founder, Alan Brody. "Regardless of which side you are on, you have to see the inner story to understand why the battle is over a lot more than land."

"For that reason," says Brody, "any solution that does not resolve the clash of mytho-religious claims is doomed."

"Jews and Muslims are joined at the level of their creation myths," says Brody. "These far transcend land claims. It is impossible to look at this Vizi and not wonder how much this mythic and emotional background affects the region and its possible solutions.

"It makes you think that the Abranhamic religions need to talk. Our next Vizi will overlay the emergence of Christianity." says Brody. "At that point you start to think that these three religions need to iron out their differences and commonalities at a kind of 21st Century of Council of Nicea."

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Alan Brody, the CEO of VisualDaily and ViziNews (http://www.visualdaily.com), is the author of the semiotics books Cigarette Seduction and White Shaka. He is also the creator of Broad on Wall.

 

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The Relationship of Jews to Palestinians:

Wikipedia: Genetic analysis suggests that a majority of the Muslims of Palestine, inclusive of Arab citizens of Israel, are descendants of Christians, Jews and other earlier inhabitants of the southern Levant whose core may reach back to prehistoric times. A study of high-resolution haplotypes demonstrated that a substantial portion of Y chromosomes of Israeli Jews (70%) and of Palestinian Muslim Arabs (82%) belonged to the same chromosome pool.[27] Since the time of the Muslim conquests in the 7th century, religious conversions have resulted in Palestinians being predominantly Sunni Muslim by religious affiliation, though there is a significant Palestinian Christian minority of various Christian denominations, as well as Druze and a small Samaritan community. Though Palestinian Jews made up part of the population of Palestine prior to the creation of the State of Israel, few identify as "Palestinian" today. Acculturation, independent from conversion to Islam, resulted in Palestinians being linguistically and culturally Arab.[15] The vernacular of Palestinians, irrespective of religion, is the Palestinian dialect of Arabic. Many Arab citizens of Israel including Palestinians are bilingual and fluent in Hebrew.

The Conversion of Palestinian Jews to Islam in the 7th Century:

Wikipedia: Tolerance under Islam (638-1099)

In 638 CE, the Byzantine Empire lost the Levant to the Arab Islamic Empire. According to Moshe Gil, at the time of the Arab conquest in 7th century, the majority of the population was Jewish or Samaritan.[56] According to one estimate, the Jews of Palestine numbered between 300,000 and 400,000 at the time.[57] After the conquest, the majority of the population became Arabized in culture and language, many also adopting the new faith of Islam.[58] Until the Crusades took Palestine in 1099, various Muslim dynasties controlled Palestine. It was first ruled by the Medinah-based Rashidun Caliphs, then by the Damascus-based Umayyad Caliphate and after by the Baghdad-based Abbasid Caliphs.

After the conquest, Jewish communities began to grow and flourish. Umar allowed and encouraged Jews to settle in Jerusalem. It was first time, after almost 500 years of oppressive Christian rule, that Jews were allowed to enter and worship freely in their holy city.[59] Seventy Jewish families from Tiberias moved to Jerusalem in order to help strengthen the Jewish community there.[60] But with the construction of the Dome of the Rock in 691 and the Al-Aqsa Mosque in 705, the Muslims established the Temple Mount as an Islamic holy site. The dome enshrined the Foundation Stone, the holiest site for Jews. Before Omar Abd al-Aziz died in 720, he banned the Jews from worshipping on the Temple Mount,[61] a policy which remained in place for over the next 1,000 years of Islamic rule.[62]