We live in a period when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has lasted more than a century, is still a major worldwide political and socioeconomic issue. That struggle has, of course, had profound and very unpleasant effects for Israelis and Palestinians alike from its inception. At its most basic level, the plot revolves around two peoples vying for national identity and expression in a small but strategically important piece of territory. As both Amos Oz, an Israeli novelist, and Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian scholar, have pointed out, the tragedy of this history stems from a conflict over the rights of two peoples with equal and legitimate aspirations to nationhood and self-expression in a single small territory to which they can both lay claim.
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We live in a period when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has lasted more than a century, is still a major worldwide political and socioeconomic issue. That struggle has, of course, had profound and very unpleasant effects for Israelis and Palestinians alike from its inception. At its most basic level, the plot revolves around two peoples vying for national identity and expression in a small but strategically important piece of territory. As both Amos Oz, an Israeli novelist, and Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian scholar, have pointed out, the tragedy of this history stems from a conflict over the rights of two peoples with equal and legitimate aspirations to nationhood and self-expression in a single small territory to which they can both lay claim.
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