When Zionists, then Israelis Think the Arabs
Encel, Frédéric
When Zionists, then Israelis Think the Arabs - 2016.
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Because of an almost centenarian conflict between Israel and before its creation the zionist movement on the one hand, the Arab and middle-eastern groups and states on the other hand, we too often tend to believe that the relations between the two have always been absolutely hostile and unsolvable.However, the Jewish nationalism at its beginnings was both east-European, non-military, secular and progressive. It didn’t know a clue about the Arab aspirations and Islam within the ottoman Palestine and elsewhere. The first frictions during the 1920’s and the 1930’s and the high intensity wars of the following decades guided the Israeli perceptions towards more hostility. Those wars were various and reflect the diversity of the Arab camp : the Druses, the Maronites of Lebanon and the Beduins of the Negev and Galilee are seen as different from the majority of Arab Muslims. Moreover, the peace agreements with Egypt, Jordan and to a lesser extent the Palestinian Authority have more or less eased the so-called “Massada complex” of total and definitive isolation of Israel.Since a few years the perception of an Arab enemy turned into a Muslim enemy: this religious and essential development fits exactly into the development of the region as a whole.
When Zionists, then Israelis Think the Arabs - 2016.
27
Because of an almost centenarian conflict between Israel and before its creation the zionist movement on the one hand, the Arab and middle-eastern groups and states on the other hand, we too often tend to believe that the relations between the two have always been absolutely hostile and unsolvable.However, the Jewish nationalism at its beginnings was both east-European, non-military, secular and progressive. It didn’t know a clue about the Arab aspirations and Islam within the ottoman Palestine and elsewhere. The first frictions during the 1920’s and the 1930’s and the high intensity wars of the following decades guided the Israeli perceptions towards more hostility. Those wars were various and reflect the diversity of the Arab camp : the Druses, the Maronites of Lebanon and the Beduins of the Negev and Galilee are seen as different from the majority of Arab Muslims. Moreover, the peace agreements with Egypt, Jordan and to a lesser extent the Palestinian Authority have more or less eased the so-called “Massada complex” of total and definitive isolation of Israel.Since a few years the perception of an Arab enemy turned into a Muslim enemy: this religious and essential development fits exactly into the development of the region as a whole.
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