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As Trump fans flames on Israeli-Palestinian conflict, HBO's gripping 'Our Boys' leaps into the fire

A teen is abducted off a street in East Jerusalem. Time is of the essence if authorities hope to find him alive, and grainy surveillance footage is all they have to go on.

The biggest hurdle in the case, however, isn't the blurry camerawork. It's the hardened predispositions of those watching the tape.

An Arab views the recorded abduction and is sure the culprits are Jews. He can tell by the way they look.

A Jew watches the murky images and theorizes that the men in question are Arabs. He can always spot an Arab by the way he walks.

They see what they want to see, like the extremist abductors who saw a mortal enemy in the innocent 16-year-old they snatched, drove to the outskirts

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