State of Genocide- Language Arts, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

The stage of genocide that goes along with our book is classification. The Israelis and Palestinians use the phrase "us and them" which is what classifying someone is. When people or group classify against another group or religion is Classification. In the book when the prime minister was shot, the Israelis immediately blamed the Palestinians.  "Those Palestinian bastards! They'll pay for this!" (Zenatti, 2005, p. 38). is a quote that shows the classification. The Israeli man who shouted this use the words "Those" and "They'll". Also they accuse the Palestinians without knowing for sure, come to find an Israeli killed the prime minister.  The Israelis and Palestinians are not permitted to speak to one another, live together, or even speak each other's languages.These examples I have written above show examples of classification because it shows the hatred for certain groups. Israelis and Palestinians have grown up hating each other. They have been told and taught to basically hate each other. They have been told if they associate with each other in a friendly manner, then they will be punished.