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THE Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of those that have dragged on for a very long time that it would be hard to trace the roots of the problem without incurring the wrath of one or all parties. The conflict rests primarily on problems relating to territory and sovereignty, as well as dissatisfaction by one or all parties with (previous) compromise agreements, whether regarding the wisdom of the terms thereof or the application of it over time. A deeper source of the problem seems to be identity politics and its religious — and maybe even ethnic — underpinnings.
I shall not discuss the historical roots of the conflict because what may seem like an "objective" or impartial assessment to outsiders such as I would just as easily be offensive to one or all parties in the conflict in the sense that I may overlook certain points or issues that they consider vital to the understanding of the conflict from their perspectives. In the same vein, the usage of certain information in formulating a narrative of the conflict may appear to one or both parties as leaning towards a certain point of view that would invariably be unacceptable to them. This is very likely because I am, by no stretch of the imagination, an expert on the subject.
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