Psychology of (Israeli-Palestinian) Conflict (Read DESCRIPTION)
October 15, 2023
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as posted by the channelCORRECTION and APOLOGY: The Hamas beheaded soldiers and murdered babies. But mercifully, they did not behead the babies. My apologies for getting this detail wrong.
There is a trauma response playing on both sides. Israel is a product of the Holocaust and the Palestinians have their Naqba.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a form of competitive victimhood: a clash between two entitled and self-centred dysempathic victimhood movements.
Like every conflict in history, it gives rise to:
Paranoid ideation and conspiracism
Narcissistic defenses (cognitive distortions such as grandiosity),
Impaired reality testing,
Magical thinking,
Splitting (dichotomous thinking): We are all good, our enemies are all bad.
Reactance (defiance and contumaciousness),
Recklessness,
Mood lability and emotional dysregulation,
Suicidal ideation coupled with religious righteousness (Masada, shahada)
The parties to the conflict abuse and manipulate each other by
externalizing aggression,
gaslighting,
and projective identification (provoking the other party to behave in a way that conforms to expectations and negates a negative self-image).
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