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A 60 year long ongoing conflict involving Jews, Arabs (and possibly Iranians), suicide bombings, F-15s, hatred, Jerusalem, and refugees. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|Don't start here on the rights and wrongs of it]], as this ''will'' cause an [[Internet Backdraft]].
All in all, it's very much a [[Grey and Gray Morality]] affair. Depending on which side you take, you may see tropes in [[Real Life]] here such as [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]], [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]], [[The Empire]], [[La Résistance]], [[The Remnant]], [[We ARE Struggling Together]], [[Villain With Good Publicity]], [[Hero With Bad Publicity]] (and no one can agree on ''who has the good or bad publicity''), [[The Kingdom]], [[The Federation]], [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]], [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]], and others ([[Idiot Ball]] is a common one). There's also plenty of [[Cultural Posturing]] to go around on both sides. The exact combination of these you perceive depends on your nationality, religion, and political bent. And ''everyone'' can agree that foreign discussion of the conflict tends to suffer from the [[Golden Mean Fallacy]] and the [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]. Additionally, with so many sides [[Gambit Pileup|playing]] (or [[Xanatos Backfire|trying to play]]) [[Batman Gambit|subtle games]] to their own ends, you naturally find that the whole thing, upon closer inspection, is one huge [[Gambit Pileup]], [[Idiot Plot|very often conducted by gibbering idiots]], with a dash of nationalism to make things that much more explosive (and we mean that literally as well as figuratively).
Oh, and due to this conflict, many Jews will suffer from the same [[Misplaced Nationalism]] as Iranians if someone suggests that the Middle East is all Arabs.
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* ''[[The West Wing]]'' episode "The Birnam Wood"
* ''[[Waltz With Bashir]] '' - specifically focused on the 1982 war in Lebanon
* ''West Bank Story'', the 2007 Academy Award winner for Best Live-Action short film, a musical (based on another musical; [[West Side Story|which one]] should be obvious to anyone not living under a rock) about a pair of [[Star
* ''[[Paradise Now]]'', a 2005 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Film (from "the Palestinian Territories"), told the story of two suicide bombers who are sent on a mission to attack in Israel.
* Looms large in the [[Backstory]] of the [[Tom Clancy]] novel ''[[Jack Ryan (Literature)|The Sum of All Fears]]'' (the film version [[Western Terrorists|substituted Nazis for Arabs).]]
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