Hadi mwaka 1948, Wazayuni hawakuwa wakidhibiti michakato ya kutaja majina ya mahali huko Palestina. Baada ya usafishaji wa kikabila wa wingi wa Nakba na kuchukuliwa kwa udhibiti kamili na Israeli wa karibu asilimia 80 ya Palestina ya kihistoria, siasa za kitamaduni za kutaja majina ziliharakishwa kwa kiasi kikubwa. Miradi ya kitaifa ya majina ya mahali sasa ilitumiwa kama zana za kuhakikisha ufanisi wa uondoaji wa Uarabu wa Palestina. Mojawapo ya zana hizi ilikuwa alama rasmi za barabarani za Israeli, ambazo mara nyingi zimeandikwa kwa Kiebrania, Kiarabu na Kiingereza. Lakini Kiarabu na Kiingereza vyote ni maandishi ya kubadilisha herufi za majina mapya ya mahali kwa Kiebrania, badala ya kuakisi jina asili la Kiarabu la Palestina. Bila shaka, idadi kubwa ya Waisraeli hawawezi kusoma Kiarabu; hili ni kwa kiasi fulani ili kuwakumbusha Wapalestina wa asili ndani ya Israeli juu ya haja ya kuyakubali kwa ndani majina mapya ya mahali kwa Kiebrania, au labda kutafuta idhini ya wazi ya Mwarabu wa Palestina anayetoweka (Shohat 2010: 264), na hivyo kuwafanya Waarabu washiriki katika uondoaji wa Uarabu wa Palestina.

Until 1948 the Zionists were not in control of the toponymic processes in Palestine. Following the mass ethnic cleaning of the Nakba and the Israeli assumption of full control of nearly 80 per cent of historic Palestine, the cultural politics of naming was accelerated radically. State toponymic projects were now used as tools to ensure the effectiveness of the de-Arabisation of Palestine. One of these tools consisted of the official Israeli road signs, which are often in Hebrew, Arabic and English. But both the Arabic and the English are transliterations of the new Hebrew place names – rather than reflecting the original Palestinian Arabic name. Of course the overwhelming majority of Israelis cannot read Arabic; this is partly to remind the indigenous Palestinians inside Israel of the need to internalise the new Hebrew place names or perhaps to seek the express approval of the vanishing Palestinian Arab (Shohat 2010: 264), making Arabs complicit in the de-Arabisation of Palestine.

Vipengele muhimu na mbinu za mifumo ya Kizayuni ya Israeli ya kubadilisha majina na kuunda majina mapya ya mahali katika kipindi cha baada ya Nakba zilijumuisha:

Key features and methods of Israeli Zionist renaming patterns and creation of new place name in the post-Nakba period included:

• Jukumu la Jeshi la Israeli: Kamati ya Majina ya Kiebrania ya mwaka 1949

• The role of the Israeli Army: the Hebrew Names Committee of 1949

na kuwafanya wakoloni wa Ulaya kuwa wenyeji wa nchi hizo.

and indigenising of the European settlers.

• Miradi inayotekelezwa na serikali: Kamati ya Serikali ya Israeli ya Majina.

• State-enforced projects: the Israeli Governmental Names Committee.

• Majina ya kihistoria ya walowezi wa Kizayuni na Wanajeshi wa Msalaba wa zama za kati.

• The legendary toponymy of Zionist settlers and the medieval Crusaders.

• Mauaji ya majina ya mahali (toponymicide) na kuchukuliwa kwa urithi wa Kipalestina; kunyamazishwa kwa historia ya Wapalestina: kuiga, kuondolewa kwa asili ya Kiarabu ya majina ya mahali pa Palestina na kudai umiliki.

• Toponymicide and the appropriation of Palestinian heritage; silencing of the Palestinian past: mimicry, the de-Arabisation of Palestinian place names and assertion of ownership.

• Uundaji wa historia inayoweza kutumika: uhusiano wa mamlaka na maarifa.

• The creation of a usable past: the power/knowledge nexus.

Mikakati ya Uyahudishaji na kudai umiliki: kuwekwa juu kwa majina ya Kibiblia, Talmudi na Mishna.

• Judaisation strategies and the assertion of ownership: the superimposition of biblical, Talmudic and Mishnaic names.

• Kuunda upya mandhari mpya ya Ulaya kama eneo la kusahaulika na kufutwa kwa kumbukumbu.

• Fashioning a new European landscape as a site of amnesia and erasure.

• Unukuzi wa majina mapya ya maeneo ya Kiebrania na alama za barabarani kwa Kiingereza na Kiarabu, baada ya uvamizi wa mwaka 1967.

• Transliteration of new Hebrew place names and road signs into English and Arabic, post-1967 occupation.