In such a small country.

From ‘Pallywood’ to " tribal conflicts " ...............

Stereotypes and Prejudice in Conflict: Representations of Arabs in Israeli-Jewish Society (review)

Dan Bar-On

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
Israel Studies 11.2 (2006)

Bar-Tal and Teichman's Book is the most extensive review and analysis of the recent social-psychological literature on stereotypes and prejudice towards Arabs in the Israeli-Jewish society, especially among the younger generations. Some of its refreshing effect can be seen in its subtitle: "Representations of Arabs in Israeli-Jewish Society." First of all, Bar-Tal and Teichman suggest that we should look at ourselves, our own stereotypes and prejudices, before we accuse the Palestinians about theirs. Secondly, semantically speaking, the name Israeli-Jewish, suggests that there are also Israeli-Arabs, while in the usual daily public discourse we will find people talk about "Israelis," meaning Israeli Jewish people or society, thereby overlooking or undermining the fact that there are also non-Jewish Israelis, and especially Israeli Arabs. The next step, which has not yet happened in this book, is to call them Israeli-Palestinians, as most of them define themselves. That may still be too much for our Israeli-Jewish 'tribal ego' to recognize.

Stereotypes usually have negative connotations: we believe it means saying bad things about others and good things about ourselves. However, Bar-Tal and Teichman rightfully tell us (pp. 234–5) that it is part of a necessary neural process of categorization, or schematization, which is basically neutral: We give names to phenomena we encounter in order to save energy in the brain's information processing about our environment. That is the only way we can function in an ambiguous and uncertain world. The negative aspect of stereotyping and of prejudice starts when we systematically over-generalize certain human categories, especially looking down upon outgroups, while favoring our ingroup. This is one of the cornerstones of Henry Tajfel's social identity theory on which this book is based.

This book goes far beyond such experimentation, dealing with stereotypes and prejudice that we tend to develop in intractable conflicts, and specifically in our local Israeli-Arab one. In order to justify our side of the conflict we are the good guys while they are the bad ones. One could say that intractable conflicts are the cause of such stereotyping, but one could also suggest that severe stereotyping and prejudice may become at some point the momentum that sustains such conflicts. This could account for what happened between Israeli-Jews and the Palestinians after the Oslo Accords, when a political solution was suggested, while both societies' mutual negative "psychological inter-group repertoire" did not change and the latter slowly wiped out the political achievements.

Source : http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/is/summary/v011/11.2bar-on.html

Members of the tribe, are What a lot of Jews call themselves.

Who are you to call me prejudiced?

of what she is talking about?

It usually works for you to employ that tactic then walk away.

dont complain ....at least he got it this time

My friends in Tel Aviv have told me about it.

Sectarian violence between Muslim and Druze youths in a village in northern Israel subsided for the most part overnight Saturday, with a heavy police presence deployed in the area to prevent further clashes.

A makeshift firecracker was hurled at a coffee shop in Abu Snan early Sunday morning, causing damage to the building, police said. No one was injured in the attack.

Twenty people remained hospitalized in the Nahariya hospital after a massive Friday night brawl between Muslim and Druze community members in the northern town.


http://www.timesofisrael.com/muslim-druze-clashes-wind-down-after-violent-brawl/

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- More than 35 Palestinian citizens of Israel have been injured in overnight clashes in the Galilee village of Abu Snan between Druze and Muslims in the wake of the killing of a young man in a nearby town by Israeli security forces last week.

Despite living in villages alongside other Palestinians, the active involvement of Druze in the security forces has caused the group to be identified with the state.


Although the majority of Palestinians were expelled from their homes inside Israel during the 1948 conflict that led to the creation of the State of Israel, some Palestinians managed to remain in their villages and their descendants today make up around 20 percent of Israel's population.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=740035