Christian Europe is divided from its beginning between an inner and outer enemy

Evidence

Europe-so-called “Christian Europe” -divides itself, from the beginning, between an enemy within and an enemy without. “Christianity is coextensive with the West,” writes Jean-Luc Nancy, “with a certain process of Westernization that consists in a form of self-reabsorption and self-overcoming.” In other words, Christianity as Europe is affected by an internal conflict, a conflict that “takes the form of a schizophrenia or an internal division” (rq). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 59

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the internal/external enemy structure—Jew internal, Arab external—that scaffolds the whole genealogy.