在1948年之前,犹太复国主义者并未掌控巴勒斯坦的地名制定过程。随着1948年大规模的民族清洗(即“大灾难”,Nakba)发生,以色列全面控制了近80%的历史巴勒斯坦领土,地名的文化政治随之急剧加速。国家层面的地名工程此时被用作工具,以确保巴勒斯坦去阿拉伯化的效果。其中一种工具是以色列官方的路牌,这些路牌通常使用希伯来文、阿拉伯文和英文。然而,阿拉伯文和英文都是对新希伯来地名的音译,而非反映巴勒斯坦阿拉伯语的原有名称。当然,绝大多数以色列人并不会阅读阿拉伯文;这一做法部分是为了提醒以色列境内的原住巴勒斯坦人需要将新的希伯来地名内化,或许也是为了寻求那些即将消失的巴勒斯坦阿拉伯人的明确认可(Shohat 2010: 264),从而使阿拉伯人成为巴勒斯坦去阿拉伯化的共谋者。

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.

以色列犹太复国主义者在后纳克巴时期的更名模式与新地名创制的主要特征和方法包括：

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

以色列国防军的角色:1949年希伯来地名委员会

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

并使欧洲定居者本土化。

and indigenising of the European settlers.

• 国家主导的项目：以色列政府命名委员会。

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

犹太复国主义定居者与中世纪十字军的传说性地名。

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

• 地名灭绝与对巴勒斯坦遗产的挪用；巴勒斯坦过去的被抹去：模仿、巴勒斯坦地名的去阿拉伯化以及对所有权的宣称。

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

• 可用过去的建构：权力与知识的关联。

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

• 犹太化策略与主权宣示：对圣经、塔木德和密释纳中名称的强行叠加。

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

•重塑新的欧洲景观，使其成为遗忘与抹除的场所。

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

Hebrew place names and road signs introduced after the 1967 occupation, transliterated into English and Arabic.

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