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Because they both became client states of the US post WW2 and fighting between client states isn't allowed.
You are missing the question, why is their almost no animosity between them after so many centuaries in conflict?
Because again they have both been demoted to client state and given a nice stream of outside "enemies" to unite against.
You seem stuck on thinking of them as governments and not nations, it is not the same. Why would the people give up 1500 years of conflict like that?
Many reasons like much of the conflict being nonsense spun up by the governments so they could have conflict (I really doubt the people of Brest and Rostok genuinely hated each other for legitimate reasons), and new "better" enemies being bestowed upon them by their new owner mainly Muslims, Russians and Chinese people. Also I wouldn't say the conflict is gone so much as it has been relegated to second place and thus is not pushed and therefore heard much, I'm sure of you asked either group they'd gladly regale you with tides of pejoratives and racism about each other.
Yet conflict is nearly impossible between them. They are too economically en culturally intertwined.
Same with Japan and the US, Poland and Germany.
As uncomfortable as it seems for the propaganda and religion riddled middle east, the only solution for peace with Israel is for the region to be politically and culturally integrated.
But both sides have been taking turns with small and large genocides over the last 1500 years. Currently the Israelis are taking their turn with a particularly brutal genocide.
The religious, political and economic elite in the region have been using racism, Zionism and Islam to keep the people weak and focused on the "other", so they don't look too hard at how they are being exploited.
The only way out is economic, political and cultural integration. The two state solution will always result in more conflict and its orchestrated that way by the regional powers.
The solution I suggest is one state, lottery based democracy, secular and socialist. It will be difficult for a generation, but its the only proven model for ending forever wars, and infinitly better than what they currently have.
That is why I think boycotting cultural events is counter productive. It just serves the elites to keep people divided.
And we're back to the fact that they're client states who aren't allowed have real conflict
Japan is a US client state obviously not going to bite its masters hand.
Again both us client states.
Or the genocidal settler colonial ethno state that's been destabilising the region for generations could go the way of Rhodesia and Apartheid South Africa.
Yes I'm sure you'd also talk down to a Jewish child refusing to partake in a chess match in Nazi Germany in the 30s/40s for dividing the working class.