that style of animation gives me a headache.

Having read Kafka's The Trial when I was younger, I am familiar with the difficulty of interpreting the meaning of his writings. Still I took a stab at this one, and what it suggests to me is that when two peoples are enemies they will always find reasons to hate yet grudgingly respect the ones whom they consider to be the primary cause of their problems.

After forming this basic thesis I went to Wikipedia and read how others have analyzed the story. I don't think my thesis is in conflict with their interpretation, but theirs goes much further into analyzing the details and applying it to a real-world conflict (which unfortunately exists even to this day).

In the end Kafka is always at least somewhat subjective, so I think its up to the reader to find his own meaning.

Jackals - impotent, rageful and naive, condemned by their nature to be unable to effect their own salvation, thus do they run about attempting to recruit one outside their ranks to give vent to their rage but the weapon of their choosing is not a weapon so much as a tool primarily used for seperation or division yet they see it as a weapon of ultimate power, if only wielded by the "right" creatue
Arabs - superior firepower gives them a false sense of innate superiority thus do they ignore the Jackals and mock by continuing to rape their land and leave them nothing to eat.

The irony is that the Arabs are furthering their own doom by marching to continual war - running in circles looking to "secure" land for themselves while laughing about the Jackals impotence. Both groups forever circle each other but only the Jackals realize the truth of the situation. Since they are unable to affect the situation directly they too are doomed to circle the effects of war. You see, the option of war is always available to the Jackals but because of their nature ( being bound by instinct to never kill for themselves) they will never exercise it. The Arabs know this and exploit it yet the Jackals know the Arabs, by their nature (being bound to paranoid wanderings ever looking to "secure" more) will forevermore leave a trail of death should they come upon a "worthy" opponant. The Arabs can feed the Jackals indirectly and the Jackals give the Arabs and excuse for their murderous trek. Neither group wants the other to stop, really, but neither group realizes they are in the same position in that way.

The European is merely a storyteller. Kafka usually had a narrator who had little to no importance directly in the story.

also, Kafka was a surrealist. So his writing has an element of unreality within it that doesn't necessarily mean anything. Its like he tells a tale using the language of dreams. It just makes it more intruiging trying to figure out which parts are important and which parts are just lagniappe