As retold by Bruce Lowitt

An old Jewish man finds a lamp in the desert.

He begins to polish it when a genie emerges and offers him a wish: "Anything you want."

So the old Jew says, "You know, I'd like for there to be peace in the Middle East, for Israel to live as a free and open country, and all the people there to live in peace and harmony with the Arabs. Here's the map of the Middle East, here's Israel, and here's the Arabs, and they've been fighting for centuries."

The genie says,  "That's world politics. I don't know if I can do that."

The old man says, "Well, in that case, my wife, uhh,  I really want her to give me oral sex once in a while."

"Is she also Jewish?"  the genie asks.

"Yes."

And the genie says, "Let me see that map again."