The brother, not the stranger, is the paradigmatic figure of the enemy

Evidence

The enemy is not the other. The enemy is the brother. Exploring the terms of kinship, Benveniste notes the possibility and impossibility of sibling rivalry, of the brother-enemy. Benveniste distinguishes the brother from the enemy, confining both to the distance of a doubling. The Sanskrit word for “nephew” (son of the brother) also bears the sense of”rival, enemy,” something that is “well attested.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 421

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definitional move: the enemy is a brother/cousin, inside kinship, not a foreign other — central to the book’s genealogical thesis about enmity as internal to a shared genealogy.