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In our interviews, we asked: “When you think about the Gazans, how do you see them?” This chapter presents answers and analyses from this question via “They Poems” that we fashioned from the interviewees’ responses. We also present a theoretical framework that connects kinds of personal narratives of intractable war—like the ones we collected—to either peacebuilding or peace obstruction (Chaitin & Avlagon, 2025). This addition provides new theoretical insights into how our interviewees connected three issues—their perceptions of the Gazans, the future of the region, and possibilities of war or peace between Israelis and Gazans. Overall, we found that while in the original study, interviewees expressed empathy and sympathy toward the ‘ordinary Gazans’, in the follow-up study, most interviewees perceived the Gazans as supporting/collaborating with the Hamas and, hence, no longer felt empathy for them, losing their belief that peace was possible between the peoples.

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Otef Aza Residents Talk About the Gazans—Pre- and Post-October 7

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    2025年

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  • Julia Chaitin,
  • Sharon Steinberg,
  • Elad Avlagon,
  • Shoshana Steinberg

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In our interviews, we asked: “When you think about the Gazans, how do you see them?” This chapter presents answers and analyses from this question via “They Poems” that we fashioned from the interviewees’ responses. We also present a theoretical framework that connects kinds of personal narratives of intractable war—like the ones we collected—to either peacebuilding or peace obstruction (Chaitin & Avlagon, 2025). This addition provides new theoretical insights into how our interviewees connected three issues—their perceptions of the Gazans, the future of the region, and possibilities of war or peace between Israelis and Gazans. Overall, we found that while in the original study, interviewees expressed empathy and sympathy toward the ‘ordinary Gazans’, in the follow-up study, most interviewees perceived the Gazans as supporting/collaborating with the Hamas and, hence, no longer felt empathy for them, losing their belief that peace was possible between the peoples.