oddly reminiscint of respective national character

Layer Cake, with James Bond and Chief O'Brian, and The Bourne Ultimatum, with Maaaat Daaamon, and the shrew from 10 Things I Hate About You. In two sentences. The former movie (limey), is very stylish, high quality cinematography, well put together, and full of clever twists....but plaid (as Kevin adroitly put it, a twist at 60mph is exciting, while a twist at 10mph...not so much). The latter (merrican) is kind of excessive, shaky, badass, in-your-face, and awesome.

interesting posit:
"The fact that Palestinian nationalism developed later than Zionism and indeed in response to it does not in any way diminish the legitimacy of Palestinian nationalism or make it less valid than Zionism. All nationalisms arise in opposition to some 'other.' Why else would there be the need to specify who you are? And all nationalisms are defined by what they oppose..."

Kind of a scary headline(reminds of some novel I read in like 6th grade, I think, about a space plague or something)