The new “Family Feud” stars two families of completely different background: Palestinians and the Arab Nations versus the people of Israel.

The only exception to this one is that they are not competing for prizes on survey-based questions, and the show does not last an hour. This feud is a violent war that has oppressed these people for thousands of years.

A crowded Humanities/Social Science room listened attentively to the lecture on the ongoing family feud between the Arab Nations, particularly Palestinians, and the nation of Israel.

Linda McDill, Professor of Sociology at Moorpark College, believes the feud revolves around the strong beliefs each nation has in their particular culture.

“The Middle Eastern culture is central to their identity,” McDill said. “Unlike the United States, who is a nation of little memory, the Arab nations have a history to remember.”

The lecture discussed the family feud going as far back as the story of Father Abraham and the Promise, where God promised Abraham and his wife Sarah the gift of a child, despite Abraham being over seventy.

Abraham bore two sons, one of which with his caretaker Hagar, which became the first natural heir of the Arab nations. Abraham also bore a son with his wife, named Isaac, at the ripe-old age of 100, and he became the heir of the nation of Israel.

The feud revolves around this biblical story, with Muslims believing Ishmael to be the natural heir of the Holy Land, being the first-born. However, Jews believe the heir to be Isaac, and Ishmael as not the one who God wanted to receive the natural heir.

Although political and territorial conflict remain decisive quarrels between the groups, the family feud based on religious beliefs are the central conflict that has lasted thousands of years.