ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a more useful and less monolithic manner of inquiry into Arab attitudes towards the Arab-Israeli conflict. Communal identity within the Arab world has been the subject of recent re-examination by Arab and Western observers alike. Pan-Arabism has been the attempt to give some practical and political expression to this shared cultural affinity. The historic “militancy” of Islam has characterized many analyses of the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as other inter-cultural/religious conflicts in which Muslims have participated. An Arab Palestine on territory Israel, the West Bank and Gaza with the expulsion of the Israeli Jews. Reviewing the Northeastern Survey’s statistics that measure attitudes towards both the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as the means by which to achieve this goal, there seems no evidence that there are monolithic cultural determinants of these attitudes. The chapter addresses the religious influence upon the conflict.
