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Living With The Enemy
After decades of demonizing each other, Israelis and Palestinians find
it hard to change their thinking.
INA FRIEDMAN ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT
cade of postwar "victory al-
est issue of the Politika, a jour-
ew sayings are more cited
bums" was the trail of boots
nal of social, cultural and poli-
in Israel these days than
abandoned in the wastes of the
cy issues, Tel Aviv University
the old Chinese curse:
desert by Egyptian soldiers flee-
researcher Oz Almog traces the
May you live in interest-
ing for their lives. And in the
Israeli image of the Arab from
ing times.
wake of those albums came a
the early "romantic view" of the
Like it or not, perhaps by the
whole genre of children's liter-
"ancient man of the Orient,"
very nature of things in chang-
ature portraying Arabs as
(who was practically "part of
ing times, Israelis are being
" 'thieves, terrorists, spies, bur-
the... wild nature of the Pales-
bombarded by conflicting re-
glars, snipers, and hijackers,' "
tinian 'wasteland' ") up through
ports about the present, to say
in the findings of Haifa Uni-
the ex-fighters-turned-allies
nothing of mixed messages
versity Professor Adir Cohen,
that Israelis have begun to see
about the future.
an expert in "bibliotherapy."
on the television screens since
As negotiations continued
Added to this long list of neg-
the signing of the peace accord:
under a mantle of secrecy in
atives was the particularly de-
Between these two poles, the
Cairo, bloodshed escalated in
meaning trait of stupidity. In
stereotypes of the intervening
the territories last week,
the most popu-
prompting Prime
lar children's
Minister Yitzhak
series, the das-
Rabin to declare
tardly plots of
that the hand ex-
all sorts of re-
tended in peace
pulsive types
would not hesi-
are foiled by
tate, in time of
clever and end-
need, to pull the
lessly resource-
trigger.
ful Israeli
By the time he
children.
said it, however,
"Legions of
Israeli troops
Arabs could be
had already done
undone by five
just that, in one
little Israelis,"
of the more dis-
says Prof. Co-
heartening inci-
hen, citing one
dents that have
manifestation
occurred since
of what Israelis
Sept. 13. Re-
now call the
sponding to an Palestinian women attend class in re-opened Bethlehem University.
"Yom Kippur
outburst of
War syndrome."
stone-throwing,
Arab children's literature,
years were almost exclusively
soldiers broke into a school near
while a much younger enter-
negative.
Ramallah and shot to death 16-
prise, was quick to take a page
Beginning in the 1920s, the
year-old Rami Razawi, the son
out of the well-established Is-
image of the "noble primitive"
of a leading Fatah figure who,
raeli book.
steadily gave way to a one of
it soon came out, had been ac-
Though originally devoted to
Arabs as a " 'negative, menac-
tive in a series of programs with
traditional folk tales, in recent
ing, homogeneous mob' " that
youngsters from Peace Now.
years it has been dominated by
" 'pounces, slaughters, uproots,
The army is investigating the
images of vicious Israeli soldiers
burns, and shoots, incited by an-
affair, and we may never know
bursting into houses and wreak-
tisemites who strive to destroy
'whether young Razawi had a
ing mayhem.
the most cherished symbols of
change or heart, was swept up
`The illustrations include car-
Zionism.' "
in the anger of the hour, or was
icatures worthy of Der Stuer-
Following the War of Inde-
shot by mistake. Nevertheless,
mer," Professor Cohen adds,
pendence, Mr. Almog finds,
the Shabiba (the Fatah youth
and in one picture in his collec-
there was a brief departure
movement) soon published a
tion the dehumanization of the
from this consistently terrify-
handbill calling for the contin-
Israeli is expressed quite liter-
ing portrayal, with attention
uation of the intifada.
ally in the form of a crudely
shifting to "pity for the defeat-
With less than a month to go
drawn animal wielding a gun.
ed Arab, the moral misgivings,
before Israel is to begin its with-
How are the two sides mov-
chagrin, and agonizing of the
drawal from Gaza and Jericho,
ing to neutralize the stereotypes
conqueror."
events have begun to raise-
inculcated over the years?
Even so, over the next two
questions about whether the
Slowly, at best. Professor Co-
decades, the shattering defeat
two sides are "ripe" for peace —
hen is the first to admit that
of the Arabs, and especially
especially since, in addition to
there's no quick fix in education.
their panicked flight from their
living in a complex and harsh
There have also been false
homes, tended to reinforced
present, Israelis and Palestini-
starts. Beginning about six
their image in Israeli eyes as
ans are embarking on their rap-
years ago, for example, the Van
"inferior and even contemptible
prochement with a heavy load
Leer Institute in Jerusalem be-
for their moral spinelessness."
of negative stereotypes that ren-
gan commissioning books that
It was the depiction of Arab
der them ready to believe the
would portray Arabs in a posi-
cowardice that ran rampant af-
worst about each other.
tive light.
ter the Six-Day War. Always
In a fascinating review of this
featured prominently in the cas-
Yet even the meaning of "pos-
"baggage" published in the lat-
F