There has been some historical research (check out Ella Sohat's article -- I forget the name of it right now --in her edited book "Dangerous Liasons") about the pre-WWII hiostory of the region, and especially the "racial" breakdown of the conflict. You see, there have ALWAYS been Jews living in the area, and what with them having lived there for the millenia, they were Arab (Saphhardic) Jews (thus shattering the whole notion of Arabs vs. Jews). There were also plenty of Christians and Muslims, and they generally were able to live upon that land together. When the Zionist state of Isreal was created after WWII, European Jews moved in with their own agenda, and started running the show out of their own cultural (and "racialized) perspective, which often both exclued Arab Jews and pitted them against their Arab brothers of different religions. (as a side note, there has also been quite a few problems with Ethiopian Jews in Isreal due to racial/cultural differences). In a sense the Jewish/Arab conflict IS a racially constructed one, based in Eurocentrism, for that particular binary excludes the first-class citizenship of the Arab Jews that have been living there all along in relative harmony with their Christian and Muslim brothers and sisters.

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The following is a conversation I overheard while waiting to get served a $1.69 bottle of spring water at the Hudon Valley Mall. It is between a couple of fine, upstanding young Americans (one of whom I was buying the water from):

Mallclerk: ... so he almost strangled her to death
Meathead: Dude, I almost killed MYSELF last weekend!
Mallclerk: Dude, I'm talking about domestic violence ...
Meathead: Dude, I was hanging out with my friends and we were all stoned. Actually I couldn't get stoned so I was pissed and bored so I thought I might kill myself
Mallclerk: Duuuuuuuude ...
Meathead: Yeah, man ...
Mallclerk: Oh man, there's that guy *pointing to random guy in the mall*
Meathead: Yo, what's HIS problem
Mallclerk: I dunno. He's just soooo wierd dude. I don't want to know him at all
Meathead: We should kill him dude
Mallclerk: Why do you think I'm calling the police on him right now, dude?
Meathead: We should still kill him. Killing people is the only solution
Mallclerk: *to me* Here's your water dude. Will that be all? ...

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