ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces Israelis holding hawkish positions. It contributes to an exploration of the potential of anthropological insight in the field of international relations, war, and peace. The review of religious and social developments affords us a fresh perspective on Israeli positions concerning Arab-Jewish settlement proposals. The chapter seeks to shed light on the kind of debate that Israelis maintain among themselves, leading on to a practical recommendation. It formulates a dovish mode of discourse which would overcome political problem. The confrontations between Jewish Israelis and Arab Palestinians, as well as many Arab and Muslim states, embed the resolutions of prior internal confrontations of moderates and extremists, 'doves and hawks', of the various adversaries. Protagonists of the Jewish-Arab conflict have maintained essentially unchanged stances. In the eyes of contemporary popular interpreters of Judaism in Israel, such as most rabbis, all the nurture alien values are seen as foreign and clashing with orthodox religion.
