The Jew-Arab hyphen marks an unresolved wound rather than a reconciliation

Evidence

The Abrahamic breaks and tears as it utters words that break from their context, finding again a speech that cuts and unbinds. The Abrahamic also affirms a certain silence. It surrounds and articulates an insufficient comma (“the Jew, the Arab”), sometimes a hyphen. It is a hyphen that does not bridge anything, the silence of which, we have seen, “does not pacifY or appease anything, not a single torment, not a single torture. It will never silence their memory. It could even worsen the terror, the lesions, and the wounds. A hyphen is never enough to conceal protests, cries of anger or suffering, the noise of weapons, airplanes, and bombs.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 336

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the title’s comma/hyphen as an actively tearing figure that aggravates rather than bridges the Jew-Arab relation.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated purpose: this is the theoretical spine articulating how the Jew-Arab relation is a wound, not a bridge.