The Importance of Identifying the Principal Contrast

Mao's work on contradiction shows importance of identifying the principal contradiction in a given conflict and to not confuse that with other contradictions. This is particularly true when it comes to the israeli palestine conflict because so many people especially in the west especially liberals they'll do this thing where they'll sort of reduce it to oh they've been fighting for thousands of years over religion right um? The primary contradiction as we've covered throughout this entire episode is not by any means religious it is the contradiction between the settler colonial, settler colonizer and the colonized  and that is what needs to be identified as such. It can be dressed up in religious garb but i think displ