Israel American Identity

By World War II, the Arab American community was virtually indistinguishable from the larger American community, a process that was facilitated by their shared Christian faith and the fact that they did not exhibit easily discernible racial or ethnic features that distinguished them from the general population. By time the second generation of Arab Americans came of age, most did not speak Arabic and many had only a superficial understanding of their Arab heritage. The three major Arab American writers of this period, Vance Bourjaily, William Peter Blatty, and Eugene Paul Nassar, saw themselves as mainstream writers and did not identify as Arab Americans. On the few occasions when they did address the issue of their ethnic identity, they were

After entering a village where the VC had already struck, the author uses the platoon’s reactions to enforce the gruesome setting of the novel. Also, the author uses an indirect characterization of Perry’s character to strengthen the theme loss of innocence. By encountering large amounts of death and wastes of human life, Perry’s innocence quickly dwindles and causes a negative emotional

The documentary, Promises, introduced the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the perspective of seven children. The film’s initiator, B.Z. Goldberg, initially interviews seven children, but gradually convinces the children to meet with peers of the opposite side in the conflict. Finally, by synthesizing the opinions of the children, the film achieves a lasting message at the end of the film -- everyone involved in the conflict is a human being, and thus one’s religion does not reflect his or her personality. Rather than enforcing this message upon the participants, the film has the children discover what it is like to be the person they hate -- a discovery which rather lingers throughout the subconscious of the film.

The aim of this study was to explore among a sample of Jewish Americans the prevalence of beliefs associated with intractable conflict and to test the role of different beliefs in predicting individuals’ support for a compromise solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. We found that the Jewish Americans we sampled tended to agree with a sense of collective victimhood and the Jewish Israeli narrative on the conflict. On the other hand they tended to disagree with the Palestinian narrative on the conflict and with statements that dehumanized the Palestinians and on average did not frame the conflict in terms of a zero-sum game. Jewish Americans in our sample tended to fall in the middle in terms of their endorsement of compromise

The authors believe that the distortion and corruption of Arabs’ image especially in Hollywood have persisted through out the history of film making and cinematic production. These unreal images advertised by Hollywood portray arabs as coming from a land of “cultural otherness” that cannot be related to in western societies and creat what he called “The Myth of Arabland” he believes that this issue is of utmost importance because it robs a whole ethnic group of it’s humanity, in addition people will not identify with arabs as humans, they will believe that a westerner dying is not like an Arab dying even though in both cases a human has died since the Arabs are represented as outsiders or people who

In looking at film as propaganda, as presented in this text, this reader found irony amid the facts of documented Holocaust horror, where questions are raised as to race, class, and artistic

Hollywood pollutes our mind and defines evil for us. In various forms of media such as film and televsion, the Arab community are generally portrayed as villains through stereotypes. Hollywood provides people with a negative image of Arab people and Mythical Arab Land. However comedy is a solution that smashes these stereotypes and seeks to explore the true identity of the the Arab community.

In fact, they are “the most maligned group” and invariably portrayed as villains or terrorists; he notes the pervasive power of film and the link between the movie industry and the government, quoting Valenti of the MPAA, “Washington and Hollywood share the same DNA” (Shaheen, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People, documentary 2006). So, whether it is a movie done through the US Dept. of Defense, like Rules of Engagement in 2000, talk programs like the Rush Limbaugh Show, evangelical broadcasts, or even Disney flicks like Aladdin in1992, the prevailing picture of Arabs is negative, exerting a powerful influence over the minds of Americans from children to the top echelons of the government. (Shaheen, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People 2001). What about the reverse image? How do Arabs see the United States of America? Is it as

In 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the pinnacle of the Jewish agency declared the establishment of the country of Israel. As the country turned into founded, many Israelis assumed the Jewish population within the Diaspora would shift to their soil in Israel. When the Jews refused to relocate themselves this made a dispute to the Israel-Diaspora bond. In addition to in 1948, Israel additionally received their independence. While this passed off, Jews in the new u . s . saw this occasion as the conclusion of a 2,000-yr antique musa to restore a Jewish place of origin inside the Holy Land.

(Birdwell, 1999) By this point in history, motion pictures had become ingrained in American culture and were becoming less of a “luxury” and more of an “every day” thing. The messages of the movies in this time period subsequently became

According the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. was the first country to acknowledge Israel as a nation on May 14th, 1948. Since the acknowledgement, Israel has became, the United States most dependable and collaborated nation in the Middle East. The United States and Israel are held together closely by their historic and cultural similarities and economical interests.

Stereotyping is a very common tool used by film makers because it is a simple way of establishing a trait of a character in a movie but it provides a single-sided portrait of certain people based on their sex, gender, religion, race or age. As an example the way Arabs, particularly Palestinians, are portrayed in cinema. The American cinema has painted a picture full of misconceptions about them and created a stereotype that has been exacerbated in many movies since the dawn of hollywood. Because Cinema is a powerful tool that manipulates and reshapes the thoughts of audiences by making spectators passively consume all presented material, it made it easy to manipulate the minds of people to serve a political agenda mainly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jack Valenti a former president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America had said: “ Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA”.

The nation of Israel has played a critical role in the formation of Western and Eastern ideologies and has had an unmistakably profound impact upon the theological and cultural evolution of mankind. Former U.S. President John Adams, commenting on the historical importance of the Hebrews, once said the following:

In recent times, the social sciences have disputed the connection between historical truth and visual representation. In the article “Hollywood’s Holocaust:

It cannot be denied the role popular culture plays in the the public’s knowledge and understanding of historical events. For a portion of the population once schooling ends, historical films become the main way people are exposed to history. Because of this it is vital to understand the benefits that are provided by these historical films and how they impact the way viewers think about the past and the world they live in today.