"Why does this very small place generate so many headlines and why does the world look at it in the way that it does? Firstly, it is uniquely divisive. Everybody with a background in one of the three monotheistic religions, probably learnt about this place in their education; a lot of people think they know something about here.
"It also plays into people's world views. If you are one of those people who believe there is a dominant Western agenda driven by American power, by finance capital, by Western attitudes towards the rest of the world. And also if you have the other attitude that there are important issues of liberation, of freedom, of colonialism at play here, then I think not just the Middle East but specifically the Israeli/Palestinian conflict becomes a microcosm of all of that. And people are able to play into that a lot of the things that they are passionate about and sometimes people are more passionate about those wider issues than actually knowing the detail, which can be a little involved about what is going on here."
JEREMY BOWEN on Feedback, 7 August 2025
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