Role Of Religious Nationalism In The Israelipalestinian Conflict

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2016-11
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Mehrzad Javadikouchaksaraei
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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The conflict over Palestine is deeply rooted in ideological, religious, and national divisions which is built up for decades. This thesis analyzed the historical context, ideology, and structures of power that animated relations between Israeli Jews and Arab Palestinians during the twentieth century. The primary aim and purpose of this thesis is to examine the reasons for the insoluble nature of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The reasons behind the continuation of the conflict are various. However, this thesis mainly concentrated on the ones stemmed from the clash of Palestinian and Jewish religious nationalism. This conflict represents the failure of both sides in making any concession from their territorial attachments, which resulted from Arab nationalism and Zionism. The thesis investigated the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement of 1993-2000 (the Oslo Accords has marked a new era for the Palestinians) by placing through the methodology of primary and secondary source of qualitative study investigating with historically analyze and constructivist theory. Also, the researcher's methodology is using the historical chronology and qualitative literature review to investigate this argues. This thesis concludes that there were several historical and literature review to debate the reasons behind the failures of peaceful. Furthermore, constructivist theory is tested in the envisioning of imperative re-imaginings of society to consequently improve relations of groups and parties with their political rivals .This dissertation analyzed the Oslo Declaration of Principles of 1993 and the purpose of this dissertation is to answer the question and asks why it failed and focus on the impact of political party affiliation in determining Palestinian and Israeli political attitudes toward the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. This thesis is a case study of the ongoing peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, and the lack of impact that past agreements have made on the recent Oslo Accords. Further, this contributes to the understanding of the political importance of national identity and the relation between identity, Culture, religion and conflict dynamics. This work contributes to show that national identity with religion can be understood and used as promoter of both peace and conflict. It is concluded that the role of religious nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is highlighted specially after the Oslo Accords and future peace will be with the participation all affected groups.
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The reasons for the insoluble nature , of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
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