Questions for discussion:While Bar-Tal and Antebi coined and popularised ‘Masada Syndrome’, ‘Siege...

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Questions for discussion:While Bar-Tal and Antebi coined and popularised ‘Masada Syndrome’, ‘Siege Mentality’ is not a phenomenon limited to Israel. Can you cite another community in conflict (from nation states to smaller social/cultural groups within nations themselves) that exhibit the characteristics of Siege Mentality? Defend your example by applying the Siege Mentality framework as you understand it. How were theAliyahmigration waves facilitated by modernity and globalisation? Is it a coincidence that the first Aliyah (circa 1880) begins in the wake of both the industrial revolution and the so-called ‘spring of nations’?please choose one and indicate which one you answer also same as last week need a discussion question (same writer needed from 55967 the same writer who has been doing it every week)

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Siege mentality is a state of mind where a community collectively believes in a prejudice of being attacked, oppressed by a certain negative force. They may develop a sense that the rest of the world is conspiring against them. The siege mentality was first established in the people of Israel out of their experience of military defense of sieges. Like Israel, the phenomenon had also been developed in Co Cork of Ireland. A similar type of panic had been observed in them in 2001 when the foot and mouth disease broke out in Britain.

Questions for discussion: While Bar-Tal and Antebi coined and popularised ‘ Masada Syndrome ’, ‘ Siege Mentality ’ is not a phenomenon limited to Israel. Can you cite another community in conflict...

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