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The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

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Alain de Botton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: December 20
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City of Zurich
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