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The conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians in the film is portrayed as a squabble between neighbors who are more alike than different. The villains—the cartoonishly evil "Phantom" and the inconvenienced real estate tycoon (played by a delightfully sleazy Rob Schneider)—represent the profiteers of conflict. The film suggests that the "common man" (or in this case, the common hairdresser/cab driver) has no actual beef with his neighbor; the hate is manufactured by external forces.

Sandler and co-writers Judd Apatow and Robert Smigel refuse to play by the rules of "respectable" political discourse. They don't give a solemn monologue about peace. Instead, they have a scene where a Palestinian man teaches an Israeli man how to properly insert a pager into a rectum to fool a metal detector. It is crass, vulgar, and somehow the most effective peace negotiation ever put on film. the great zohan