Is the Israel-Palestine conflict about religion or culture?

It is true that Israelis are mostly Jewish and Palestinians are mostly Muslim, but religion is pretty low on the list of direct drivers of the conflict. This is not, despite what your grade school teacher may have suggested, a clash between Judaism and Islam over religious differences.

Is it your civic duty to understand the Israel-Palestinian conflict?

So consider it your civic duty as a citizen of the world to ignore the naysayers who insist you could never possibly understand this conflict — you can. It is true that Israelis are mostly Jewish and Palestinians are mostly Muslim, but religion is pretty low on the list of direct drivers of the conflict.

Are we fighting a war of religion or a territorial war?

The answer, of course, is a mistaken diagnosis. The conflict isn’t territorial (even though it has many territorial symptoms, and we fight over every acre and every house), but a war of religion, a clash of ideologies. And such a conflict can’t be solved by drawing lines on a map.

What is the conflict over Jerusalem all about?

There is one aspect of the conflict with a more overt religious dimension: Jerusalem. The long-divided city has, in its ancient center, Islam’s third holiest site (the al-Aqsa mosque compound) located physically on top of the much older Temple Mount, the Western Wall of which is Judaism’s holiest site.

Is Israel an extension of European colonialism?

The first is that Europe created Israel, and thus that Israel is an extension of European colonialism. The second is that Israel’s creation was a response to the Holocaust. Both have elements of truth but are, on balance, not correct descriptions of Israel’s founding.

Is Israel like an island in the Middle East?

“Israel is like an island in the Middle East. We can feel very Americanized, but we have developed here a unique culture of our own. Once a culture takes off after several decades, you find that there are behaviors that would seem completely strange” to outsiders.

Does Netanyahu’s Foreign Policy make Israel more isolated abroad?

Over the course of his long political career, Netanyahu has faced the persistent criticism that his policies vis-à-vis the Palestinians would lead to Israel’s isolation abroad. In order to counter that claim, especially in recent years, Netanyahu has made developing relations with unfriendly states a key component of his foreign policy.

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