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Nearly two million Palestinians live in this tiny Mediterranean area, cut off from the world and with no prospects of a humane future. The majority of the Gaza Strip's current residents are younger than 18 and did not vote for Hamas. Nonetheless, Israel and the international community are condemning them to a life of poverty, destitution and despair.
As long as that does not change, peace will never come to the Middle East.
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Nonetheless, Israel and the international community are condemning them to a life of poverty, destitution and despair," says Bettina Marx. The collapse of traditional multilateralism in the Arab world has been accompanied by a significant shift in American Middle East policy under President Donald Trump, writes In her latest novel, "The Book of Disappearance", Palestinian author Ibtisam Azem strikes a nerve with a fantastical tale that simultaneously fascinates and moves the reader, Another round of Knesset elections Deciding Netanyahu's fate In terms of policy, this election has little else to offer.
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Your name. Leave this field blank. Newest Most Read Most Comments. All have in common two features—caring about a social issue, and willingness to sacrifice time, effort, money, or jail-time in order to achieve the social-goal. Unruly, violent and illegal protest has become a norm for the last two decades.
Comparing aggressive participation attitudes to other forms of activism has immense implications for social policy and the future of democracy.
The theoretical questions dealt with the nature of social activism, the practical dealt with determinants of different forms of activism. The results indicate that social activism attitudes exist as a multidimensional construct rather than an unidimensional factor.
Overall, gender effects, and the influence of socialization agents were found to be the most influential in affecting youth's attitudes towards social activism, while personal beliefs about the political system, personal efficacy, and levels of engagement in social activism had rather a minor effect, contrary to expectation. Furthermore, embeddedness in a reference group for the most part had a moderating or reversing rather than intensifying effect, when interacting with the attitudes of significant others.
All those findings indicate the need for further research into the crossroads of political and moral socialization, social activism, and personal and social development. A sense of idealism, social responsibility and interest in social activism, that hopefully will survive the following years of exposure to the social and political systems as they are being handled today by previous, more cynical generations. Enosh, Guy, "Attitudes of Israeli youth towards social activism: Between altruism and violence"