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Trauma in the Middle East is deeply associated with the bitter struggle during the last hundred years between Arabs and Jews. We will concentrate in this paper on the trauma associated with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The Jewish population immigrated to Palestine (after 1948—Israel) from all over the world but mainly from Europe and from the Arab countries in Asia and Africa. Most of the Palestinians* had lived in Palestine whereas some immigrated to it from neighboring countries.† The Jews viewed their immigration (named Aliya in Hebrew, which means “going up”) as an act of reviving their national home destroyed two thousand years ago by the Romans. The Palestinians viewed the Jewish immigration as an intrusion by an alien group, similar to previous intrusions of conquerors or colonialists (Crusaders, Mamelukes, British, and French).
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Bar-On, D. (2000). Cultural Identity and Demonization of the Relevant Other. In: Shalev, A.Y., Yehuda, R., McFarlane, A.C. (eds) International Handbook of Human Response to Trauma. Springer Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4177-6_8
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