Dan Bar-On on the Mideast Crisis: The Vicious Circle of Rightfulness, Power, and Loss of Compassion
The Vicious Circle of Rightfulness, Power, and Loss of Compassion Israelis have internalized the sense of "victimhood" and have thus become blind to the suffering of their adversaries, writes Israeli psychologist Dan Bar-On Dan Bar-On: "Now we are the ones who refuse to conduct a dialogue, less out of political wisdom, but out of feeling of superiority and power-orientation, writes" In the film "Paradise Now" one of the Palestinian potential suicide bombers tells his girlfriend: "The Israelis took ownership on both the rightfulness of being victims and on the total powerfulness. They h...
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