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Lecturer on Psychology Tal Ben-Shahar ’96 advocated an “alternative framing” of the Arab-Israeli conflict at a Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) event last night, saying that taking a wider geographical, historical, and moral perspective on events in the region is necessary before the Israelis and Palestinians can reach peace...
...Frankly, I don’t know of a solution to this conflict,” said Ben-Shahar, who teaches Psychology 1504, “Positive Psychology.” “But for both sides to thrive, prosper, and coexist, the first step is to understand the conflict in a fair and just framing...
...Ben-Shahar said that reframing the conflict would eliminate what he called the anti-Israel bias in academia and the media...
...Ben-Shahar said the historical elements of his framework relate to the problems Palestinian refugees have faced in Gaza and Hebron [SEE CORRECTION APPENDED...
...Ben-Shahar said that when the colonial European Jews [SEE CORRECTION APPENDED] purchased these “uninhabited and uninhabitable territories” from Arab landowners then living in Turkey, the land came with an official decree preventing the displacement of Palestinian Arabs...