The bipolar cold war environment poured oil in the fire. Palestine issue is entangled in the various epochs of history. One side won the war, the other lost, but the contest is as alive as ever”. Said in another article on Israel- Palestine conflict wrote, “it is a contest over the same land by two peoples who always believed they had valid title to it and who hoped that the other side would in time give up or go away. However, problems like Israeli-Palestine conflicts are beyond such conceptual understandings and theories, any such attempts would be a case of reductionism. Also, in a conversation with Edward Said Noam Chomsky says the “core issue in the Middle East is oil” and the neo-colonial greed for it. Following the works of Frantz Fanon, famous post-colonial psychiatrist Karima Lazali observes colonial trauma (colonialism’s deep scars in the minds of West Asian people) as the reason for never-ending violence in the region. “The clash of ignorance” was his attempt to fill the lacunae left out by Samuel Huntington in his theory of the “clash of civilizations”. However, Said was not attempting to trace the causation of the violence. Edward Said in his article “The clash of ignorance” cited “internal dynamics and plurality” of the West Asian civilization as the root cause. Social scientists, have been trying to understand the origins of violence. The West Asian society has always been plagued by intergenerational terror.
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