Výzkum israelského kolektivního vědomí

Před časem vyšel v Arec článek o israelském kolektivním vědomí. Jeho závěry jsou tristní: "Israeli Jews' consciousness is characterized by a sense of victimization, a siege mentality [= Abwehrpsychose, poznámka G. P.], blind patriotism, belligerence, self-righteousness, dehumanization of the Palestinians and insensitivity to their suffering."

K tomu přispívá národní mythologie: "Among the same Jewish public, 40 percent are unaware that at the end of the 19th century, the Arabs were an absolute majority among the inhabitants of the Land of Israel. Over half of respondents replied that in the United Nations partition plan, which was rejected by the Arabs, the Arabs received an equal or larger part of the territory of the Land of Israel, relative to their numbers; 26.6 percent did not know that the plan offered the 1.3 million Arabs a smaller part of the territory (44 percent) than was offered to 600,000 Jews (55 percent)."

Na druhou stranu, většina už uznává, že Palestinci byli vyhnáni: "However, his study shows that a larger percentage of the Jewish population in Israel believes that in 1948, the refugees were expelled (47.2 percent of respondents), than those who still retain the old Zionist version (40.8 percent), according to which the refugees left on their own initiative." Kéž bychom se jednou k tak pěknému číslu dopracovali v případě vyhnání Němců.