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Israeli Society's Blindness to the Other Explored in Posthumous Essay
Translated & summarized from Haaretz by baba
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- The essay draws on Sama Hassan's book "Between the Ruins" to explore societal divisions.
- This cognitive framework leads to a perception of the distant or 'other' as threatening.
This cognitive framework creates distinctions between "us" and "them," forming primary group affiliations from which individuals view the outside world.
This foundational construction, he contends, shapes how Israelis perceive and interact with those outside their immediate group.