> “Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab
> life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother
> against our father; my family against my cousins and the
> clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against
> the world and all of us against the infidel.”
>
> – Leon Uris, ‘The Haj’.
“And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”
From the prophecy in Genesis 16:12 given by the angel to Hagar, the mother of Ishmael, who was the progenitor of all the Arabs.
The Uris quote is certainly reminiscent of that.