East Meets West

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This paper is written in the first person by a young Israeli, and it tells of his thoughts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It uses "Representations of the Intellectual" by Edward Said to examine the way the representation of such an issue is clouded by one's personal views and beliefs.

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"I am an Israeli, and in 1990-2, I went traveling in Southeast Asia. Traveling has become a ritual in the Israeli society, and many young people are doing so after they finish their mandatory army service of two (females) or three years (males). I left home in early September of 1990, shortly after Sadam Hussein invaded Kuwait. The winds of the Gulf War began to blow in the world. In November, I was in Nepal. There I became ill and went to see a local doctor. The doctor took his time to explain to me how Iraq was going to wipe Israel from the face of the earth, and that I will soon be a refugee. I could hear and see the ugly grin in his voice and face. This was the first of several encounters I had in the following months. When the war started in mid January, I was in India. I had to cut short my visit there because of the growing anti-western sentiment: pro-Iraq demonstrations in the streets, puppets of President Bush hanging from lampposts, anti-American graffiti on the walls and so on."

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