Shai Golden, Haaretz Correspondent: Now maybe we can calm down
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Title:Religion-cum-Land
Name:Rose-Marie M.
City: KigaliState: Rwanda
Cipora: "this conflict was never only about a piece of land. It was always about religion..."

Well, as a matter of fact, the "Holy Land" idea has turned what was and still is a mere piece of land (and at present sadly unholy!) into a religious artefact. So that we have this conflict about a "religious" piece of land is indeed a religious war. Hence "most difficult to overcome" as Cippora rightly points out - until people are sufficiently enlightened to realize how backward it is to fight over territory - and how civilised it would be to share it instead.