Too often, the leadership on both sides has sought to exploit these nationalistic denials for their own political and ideological gains, at the expense of understanding the narrative of the other side.
He traces the origins of the German plan to a combination of Hitler's ideological obsessions — gaining Lebensraum to his east while smiting the Bolshevik-Jewish conspiracy that supposedly ran the Kremlin — and his reckless underestimation of Soviet military capabilities.
This ideological battle gained particular momentum during the protests following the disputed presidential election in Iran in 2009 and has roughly boiled down to a debate over using limited resources to address underlying grievances (like occupied territory, strategic threats, etc).
Both men are particularly appalled, they said, by the way Isis has used their scholarship to cloak its savagery in ideological legitimacy, to gain recruits and justify its battle with al-Qaida and its affiliates.
More ideological parties will gain due to higher turnout of their more dedicated voters: this will reward Yossi Beilin's Meretz-Yahad, right-wing parties such as Avigdor Lieberman's Israel Beteynu and the National Union-National Religious Pallianceiande, and the two religious parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism.
Whether for economic gain or ideological purity, destroying humanity's common heritage limits our understanding of one another, as well as of our past — something we can ill afford in today's fractious world.
This is particularly so in regards to carbon abatement and the economic stimulus, so as to gain the ideological ascendancy for their view about the very role of government.
Such a deal would mark the final chapter in a case that has been seen as one of the first major salvos in the federal government's war on Anonymous, a loose collective of hackers who say they are motivated by ideological beliefs, not financial gain.
