The Role of Humiliation in the Palestinian / Israeli Conflict in Gaza
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چکیده
The Israeli / Palestinian conflict is a long complex unedifying story of lost opportunities, fragile truces, dashed expectations and broken agreements. In this paper I offer a social psychological lens to this conflict that complements the IR perspective, and may help to explain its intractable nature. I focus on humiliation and how it helps to define both the Israeli and Palestinian sense of identity. The emotional impact of the current situation in Gaza is discussed, and how this affects recruitment for resistance organisations. The concept of resentment and humiliation being related to enforced changes of status opens up the possibility for social psychologists to study the potential for conflict by examining status dynamics and hierarchies at a group level of analysis.
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