Apocrypha credits Freud with saying that 'sometimes a cigar is just a cigar'. My point in this blog is that most subjects we pay attention to are not just cigars they are the symbols expressed by cigars.
Most people know that two women fighting usually attracts attention and men will frequently watch rather than break-up the fight. These are called cat fights. Why so much attention to women fighting?
Because the popular mythology holds that women are peaceful. Feminists have argued that with more elected women the world would be more peaceful.
Thus, when we get to watch two women fight each other we are actually enjoying the mythological battle between the reality of women and the feminist fantasy of women that the fight symbolizes. The same is true for the large groups of extra people who went to Seattle's Pike Place Market to watch dead salmon being thrown from the front of the store to the cashier. The public crowds started coming after PETA claimed the fish throwing was degrading to fish. The crowds got to see dead fish being thrown which is not very interesting, but each fish thrown became a mythological battle of the gods of reality versus the moralistic theories of PETA.
No battle in the world holds the interest of the American, European and Middle-Eastern press like the Israelis versus all their neighbors and all the Jew haters in the world. This battle has been in the search lights for fifty years. This battle is obviously symbolizing the mythological battle of a giant versus a human. Americans and Israelis see the human as the Israelis. Many Europeans (who have a thousand year history of Jew hate) and most Arabs see the Palestinians as the humans.