The impact of Israeli security strategies on Palestinian social behavior and strategies to confront them رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

The study aimed at investigating the Israeli security procedures, and its impact on the Palestinian social behavior, and to find out the Palestinian security strategy and its impact on the Palestinian social behavior, it also aimed to explore the impact of the Palestinian implications and dimensions on (direct/indirect) Israeli procedures upon the execution of these implications and dimensions, and to explore the statistical significant differences between respondents toward the Israeli security strategies upon their demographic characteristics (gender, age, level of education, place of residence, career). To achieve these objectives, an analytical and descriptive approach (Mixed Approach) had been applied, where the questionnaire was designed and distributed to a intentional sample consisted of (81) Palestinian citizens, in addition, conducting personal interviews with five persons, taking into consideration, that they are holding an academic degrees whether specialized in the Israeli political, social or security components, or those who have political activities in the field, or affiliation with one of the Palestinian organizations. Where an appropriate statistics were applied to ensure the validity and reliability of the study tool. The findings showed that the most direct procedures that the Israeli security used were (land confiscation, home demolition, martyrdom of one family members and stalking), while the most indirect procedures were (monitoring, arresting of a family member, direct attack to an acquaintance), and the most important dimensions and implications of the Israeli security strategy were (destroying the Palestinian social component and distorting the Palestinian identity, creating sedition and fragmentation of the social segmentation, relying on ironing of awareness, killing and displacement, emptying land, canceling identity and confiscating Palestinian natural resources), on the F other hand, the effects on Palestinian social behavior resulting from the implementation of the Israeli security strategy were clear in the increase of poverty and unemployment percentages upon the economic blockade, working to corrupt the Palestinian families (women and mothers) to distort the proper education and upbringing, distort national concepts, moral and social values, and abandon religious beliefs. The findings also showed low degree of acceptance toward the perceived role of the Palestinian security implications and strategic dimensions for the citizen in consolidating his/her steadfastness on the land and defending the own interests, and a low degree of positive impacts resulting from the application of Palestinian security strategies on Palestinian social behavior, it also found that there were no statistically significant differences between respondents to the contents and dimensions of the Israeli security strategy due to their (gender, age, place of residence, profession), while there were a statistically significant differences attributed to the (level of education) in favor of the holders of (bachelor and higher graduate studies). It also found that there were a statistically significant impact in the contents and dimensions of the Palestinian security strategy on the Palestinian social behavior by (0.5) degree in contrast to the presence of a statistically significant impact in the contents and dimensions of the Israeli security strategy on the Palestinian social behavior by (0.58) degree, while there were no statistically significant impact in the contents and dimensions of the Palestinian security forces on the Israeli (direct/indirect) procedures resulting from the implementation of the contents and dimensions of the Israeli security strategy. The study recommended to focus on a set of contents and dimensions aimed at confronting Israeli security strategies that have high impact on the Palestinian social behavior where the most important, which is causing to raise the awareness among the G Palestinian citizen, and the need to raise the level of the citizen’s confidence in the importance and the role of the Palestinian security institute, and to make all efforts to compact the phenomena of poverty and unemployment, and to promote the principle of self-reliance and creating national alternatives, and facing the arbitrary Israeli measures (arresting, confiscation of lands, house demolitions, the martyrdom of a family member).