Quote from Paris in In the Clamor and the Clangor
Paris: When you boil it down, isn't the whole Israeli-Palestinian problem a case of sibling rivalry? Professor Freedman: Follow up? Paris: The Old Testament, it's all there. Israelis are descendants of Abraham and Sarah. Arabs are descendants of Abraham and his maid Hagar. So Israelis and Arabs both have the same dad, and both want the great nation God promised Abraham. They might as well be fighting over who gets the TV remote.