What a stupid freakin' insulting question! Are we living in such a gutless era that an art website actually asks these kinds of questions? Are we in grade 9 art class or are we grown ups.

Ok,so let's make pretty Middle Eastern art that's just a weeeee little bit political so we don't have to think toooooo hard. We can't upset anyone...they have bombs you know! Geeez!

Could you please provide me with a few reputable links on this 'Zionist privilege' during Nazi era? I'd love to research this topic. Any info on white power or the illuminati too would be great. I'm sure you can help there too. Thanks dude.

For such a fruitless debate with 'ingrained prejudice', you certainly are contributing to its fruitlessness, fruit_loopz. What you fail to see is that you are not debating -or considering- the issue, you are Defending a position that you hold dear with carefully selected facts and arguments that do not advance any debate...so i guess it is fruitless.

I don't know how many Jews are on this site, but I do know that they have been forced to consider both sides of this argument going back long before 1967!! Almost every Jew I know supports Israel, a few don't. Most Muslims I know support Palestine. A few don't. They have all swayed in various degrees over time because their very lives are at stake and they do debate it carefully.

Have you ever considered the opposite arguments in context, taking in all arguments above, etc, without saying 'yeah but' to sustain your desired outcomes? Try it and you just might learn how powerful ingrained prejudice is nest time you look in the mirror. Or is that just fruitless, fruit_loopz. Reason and passion lead to good debates. Anger leads to hatred. Peace out ;-)

That was disturbing: "surviving the holocaust must make one see enemies everywhere, even when they do not exist." Bloody hell fruit_loopz: First you talk of empathizing and then you do the exact opposite. Are you that ignorant and insensitive to deny someone's fear of others based their own personal traumatic experience - like the holocaust? Do you know something about LRose that I don't?

You are a shining contemporary example of why Jews "see enemies everywhere". You are their enemy, of the worst kind...too afraid to express a simple prejudice. I can just hear you at dinner parties slipping in the odd jab about being tired of hearing about the holocaust, or the zionist plot LOL. It starts with that kind of thinking and slides down into sludge and evil from there. It always always does, no matter now you've convinced yourself to believe you're not 'that way'.

Practice what you preach, or go read your history so you can "understand/empathize with less fashionably branded causes. If you need a few thousand hours of holocaust testimonials to teach you about enemies and empathy, google the shoah foundation and listen to a few. Then come back here and talk about enemies around the world. Canada, US + UK, during ww2, now it's Iran, Syria, Jordan, etc.

When I was working in Dubai after 911, I was forbidden by law from making a phone call to a friend in Israel. She had to call me instead. I was fired. What enemies?