Drawing on Rogers Smith's «The American Creed and American Identity: the limits of liberal citizenship in the United States» (1988) and Yoav Peled and Gershon Shafir's «Being Israeli: the dynamics of Multiple Citizenship» (2002) the paper
seeks to scrutinise the dynamics between three prominent discourse in Israeli identity:
ethno - national, liberal and republican.
A brief foray into the cultural realm will demonstrate how the unpleasant emotion of fear can be turned into the excitement of horror movies, gothic literature, and thrill -
seeking games while, on the negative side of things, forming a part of
ethno - racial prejudice and political oppression.