alt Hacker NewsWhenever someone asks my opinion on something related to the conflict in the holy land, I ask them if they want the anti-Jewish answer, the anti-Muslim answer, the pro-Jewish answer, of the pro-Muslim answer.
And it took me decades of studying this to determine what to call the two sides.
I also like "the Holy land" as a less political name for that region.
It's out of fashion and perhaps identified with Christianity, and some people think I'm being tongue-in-cheek or gently trolling by using it. But IMO it's neutral and unambiguous: that's a part of the world that is sacred to all the major religions of the Western hemisphere, while not being tied to any particular set of boundaries.