Relationship building in the middle east among adversaries: Israelis and palestinians

Abstract

This chapter will showcase the invaluable role that intercultural dialogue, encounters, workshops, and structured interactions between Israeli Jews and Palestinians play in advancing reconciliation and friendships, crucial to long-term resolution of the conf lict. Also identified and examined are the unsung peacemakers and conciliators who, in the face of hostility and accusations of betrayal, are holding reconciliation-aimed sessions between Israelis and Palestinians and Jews and Muslims to bridge the cultural gap and put a human face on the other. Referring to the "Contact Hypothesis," Ifat Maoz correctly asserts that "intergroup contact can, under certain conditions, be effective in reduc..