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Middle East Monitor — Majority of Israeli Jews Believe They Are ‘Chosen People’

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This finding marked a key feature in the way that the conflict is moving in the international arena and the polarisation between Israel and US on the one hand and European allies on the other. “The tense political relations between both Israel and the European Union, and recently between the EU and Washington as well, can also be delineated by religious beliefs,” said the poll’s authors. “Israelis and Americans view Europe as godless and decadent, but for the Brahmins in Brussels, Israel and the United States are drifting into fundamentalist Crazyland.” Religious wars. The problem with all types of exceptionalism is that exceptionalism leads to fanaticism and devaluing other people. The melding of American exceptionalism with Israeli exceptionalism is especially troubling in a region

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This finding marked a key feature in the way that the conflict is moving in the international arena and the polarisation between Israel and US on the one hand and European allies on the other. “The tense political relations between both Israel and the European Union, and recently between the EU and Washington as well, can also be delineated by religious beliefs,” said the poll’s authors. “Israelis and Americans view Europe as godless and decadent, but for the Brahmins in Brussels, Israel and the United States are drifting into fundamentalist Crazyland.”
Religious wars. The problem with all types of exceptionalism is that exceptionalism leads to fanaticism and devaluing other people.

The melding of American exceptionalism with Israeli exceptionalism is especially troubling in a region of Islamic exceptionalism.

Europe is not immune to exceptionalism either, for example, Western exceptionalism, which is sometime equated and white exceptionalism.

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Majority of Israeli Jews Believe They Are ‘Chosen People’
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