By Robert I. Rotberg
"An fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of the myths and narratives that lie in the back of the unresolved Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.... somebody devoted to the fullest attainable knowing of the Israeli-Palestinian clash may want to learn this quantity disguise to cover." -- Neil Caplan, Vanier university, MontrealWhy does Hamas refuse to realize the legitimacy of the nation of Israel? Why do Israeli settlers within the West financial institution insist that Israel has a sound correct to that territory? What makes the Israeli-Palestinian clash so intractable? Reflecting either Israeli and Palestinian issues of view, this provocative quantity addresses the 2 robust, bitterly contested, competing historic narratives that underpin the Israeli-Palestinian clash. Compelling contributions by means of Israeli and Palestinian authors exhibit how the intertwined reckonings of the background -- history's double helix -- offer robust ammunition for present battles. simply while a answer of the clash might sound to be at the horizon, the gulf of heritage resurges to split the contenders. Palestinians and Israelis stay locked in fight, tightly entangled and enveloped by way of a ancient cocoon of starting to be complexity, primary war of words, and overriding miscalculation.This e-book creates a discussion between Palestinian and Israeli authors, who study opposing types of the ancient narratives within the context of latest Israeli-Palestinian family. In hard-hitting essays the individuals debate the 2 justifying and rationalizing buildings, laying naked the conflict's roots and the distorted prisms that gasoline it. Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of clash is a useful source for somebody trying to make experience of contemporary headlines.Contributors are Sami Adwan, Dan Bar-On, Mordechai Bar-On, Daniel Bar-Tal, Nathan J. Brown, Saleh Abdel Jawad, Eyal Naveh, Ilan Pappe, Dina Porat, Robert I. Rotberg, Nadim N. Rouhana, Gavriel Salomon, and Mark Tessler.
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The focal point for reconciliation attempts becomes the attainment of the legitimization of the other side’s narrative, including the acknowledgment of its history. NOTES 1. ), The Handbook of Social Psychology (Reading, MA, 1968, 2nd. ), III, 50–135; Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (New York, 1973); Daniel Katz, “The Functional Approach to the Study of Attitudes,” Public Opinion Quarterly, XXIV (1960), 163–204; Janusz Reykowski, “Social Motivation,” Annual Review of Psychology, XXXIII (1982), 123–154.
34 Daniel Bar-Tal and Gavriel Salomon ❖ 3. Expression in cultural products. Institutionalization of the narratives is also expressed in cultural products such as ¤lms, TV programs, books, theatrical plays, and so on. They are part of a society’s cultural repertoire, relaying societal views and shaping attitudes. Through these channels such beliefs are broadly disseminated, reaching every public sector. 4. Appearance in educational materials. Narrative beliefs are included in the textbooks used for school socialization.
The peace treaty with Egypt in ❖ 22 Daniel Bar-Tal and Gavriel Salomon ❖ 1979, the Madrid conference in 1991, the agreements with the Palestinians in 1993 and 1994, and the peace treaty with Jordan in 1994 are watershed events in the peace process, and have greatly affected Arab–Jewish relations. The eruption in 2000 of violent confrontations between Israeli Jews and Palestinians was a major setback to the peace process and has had an important in®uence on the quality of intergroup relations between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East.