The first episode of Vice Media’s new web series, “Hip Hop In The Holy Land” opens with a warning: “Never make a documentary about the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
The show’s host, Mike Skinner of British hip hop group The Streets, makes a fair point — however cloying. The ongoing conflict, which technically began with the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, has truly (if undiplomatically) existed in the region for thousands of years. It’s ingrained in, and inseparable from contemporary society.
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