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A 7 page research paper that discusses the similarities and differences between Israelis and Palestinians, focusing on social perception and cognition. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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and re-establishment their ancient homeland of Israel as a haven against anti-Semitism. Arabs whose families had occupied Palestine for centuries were threatened by Jewish settlements, as there was a steady
rise in the Palestine Jewish population throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On November 29, 1947, the United Nations (UN) passed Resolution 181, which addressed the civil unrest
that was disrupting Palestine. This resolution created two states, one for Jews and one for Palestinian Arabs (Waxman, 2011). However, the conflict between these two ethnic groups has never been
fully resolved and continues into the present. The following examination of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict investigates the similarities and differences between these two ethnic groups from a sociological perspective. This
includes consideration of the role of conformity within their societies, as well as the relationship between social perspective and social cognition and how these concepts operate in each of these
ethnic groups. Additionally, this investigation also considers the social perceptions that must be addressed and changed in order to resolve this historic conflict. The Role of Conformity The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
is frequently portrayed as being grounded in "identity markers," such as "religion, language or ethnicity" (Hallward, 2007, p. 85). As this indicates, for the majority of Israelis and Palestinians, the
dividing lines between these two groups are quite clear, and this distinction includes the differences between Jewish Israelis and Arab Israelis, that is, Israeli citizens who are of Palestinian heritage.
Arab Israelis make up 20 percent of Israels population and their status and sense of identity defies the conventional boundary lines between the ethnic groups of Palestinians and Israeli (Hallward,
2007). While each state would prefer to present their countries as united and homogenous in nature, this is far from the truth. Israel has a "sizeable Muslim minority" and
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