Representations of Inter-Faith Couples: “Inevitable Violence” and the Israeli Arab Conflict

In recent years there is a growing concern amongst Israeli Jewish-religious sectors in relation to Jewish-Arab couples whose number supposedly on the rise. this article, I will analyze three key representations of such couples, all written, published, or performed within Jewish religious sectors. These portray relations as following an almost identical trajectory, from optimistic beginning tragic and violent end. They expose explanatory model for these their assumed inevitable failure, which disguised by non-religious, behavioral, social, cultural terminology, convince wider audiences, including secular ones, avoid them. This exploits well feeds into contemporary Muslim men culture violent. At same time, exposes assumptions that are prominent also among many Jews, making discourse appealing wide sections society.