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8 - Pursuing Security

Jewish Israeli Children’s Schematic Interpretations of Palestinian Day Laborers

from Part III - Situating the Reception of Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street in Mundane, Intractable Conflict Zone Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2021

Yael Warshel
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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This chapter’s ethnography of the “quality of life” West Bank development/settlement of Alfei Menashe describes the structural realities and security schematic narrative lens through which this Jewish Israeli audience filtered “the conflict” and understood the series. They are viewed from outside by stateless-nation Palestinians as living behind the “Wall Enclave” and by state-minority Arab/Palestinian Israelis as a “settlement” (most Jewish Israelis regard it as a “consensus settlement”). Alfei provides its children the greatest opportunity for contact with Palestinians, which the separation barrier has all but eliminated for Israelis. Neither interpersonal contact with Palestinian day laborers who build and clean their homes and playgrounds, nor imagined contact influenced their readings of the text. From secondary conversations, news media portrayals, and artifacts like the barrier constructed to maintain the secured existence of Israel, they learn Palestinians are those who commit terror. Via a binary logic, anyone allowed into Israel (or Sesame Street) is not Palestinian. Fearing harm, a majority erased Palestinian characters. These processes, not Sesame Street, were overwhelmingly socializing them, leading them to oppose the series’ attempt to communicate peace. They normalized and reproduced “the conflict,” assuming defensive play patterns; for them, the resolution is “evicting, killing or imprisoning” Palestinians.

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Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Children, Peace Communication and Socialization
, pp. 265 - 303
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Pursuing Security
  • Yael Warshel, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book: Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
  • Online publication: 08 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108622714.013
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  • Yael Warshel, Pennsylvania State University
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  • Online publication: 08 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108622714.013
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  • Pursuing Security
  • Yael Warshel, Pennsylvania State University
  • Book: Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
  • Online publication: 08 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108622714.013
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