Yeah the people. ""So, no head of state or any sort of independent government, no actual borders" And don't forget the part where the people there aren't actually people. Also they didn't live there or identify themselves as a people. No problem wiping them the fuck out and building cities on their bones then. That where we're going with that, apartheid guy?"
The people about whom Johnathon Ofir said:
Throughout my childhood in Israel, there was a word that had a distinctly frightening aura: “terrorists” – “mehablim” in Hebrew (literally meaning “sabotagers”). I knew they were invariably Arab, long before I understood that Palestinians even existed, and I somehow knew they were out to get us, but that courageous soldiers would protect us.
In my young mind, all of the enemies were all one thing. They were Arabs, surrounding us and even in our midst, and we were Jews trying to fight for our survival in this jungle. Ehud Barak called it a “villa in the jungle”. They, the Arabs, were always somewhere out there in the dark jungle. Thank God we had those soldiers, always at the ready to shoot a Mehabel – an Arab terrorist.
I didn’t learn the stories of our massacres of civilians in school. Not the Kafr Qasim massacre (on the eve of the 1956 war), nor the Qibya massacre of 1953, nor the various massacres of the 1948 Nakba. The 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres were happening as I was attending fifth grade, but that invasion of Lebanon was for me just “Operation Peace of the Galilee”, that was meant to eradicate what Defense Minister Ariel Sharon kept calling “terrorist nests” (of the exiled PLO).
So in some general way, the wars for me, as a child, were always wars against terror. We were being terrorized and had to fight back.
Again the link to which we could even call a Palestinian library, i guess. Or an Israeli library. After all, before the Zionists arrived they lived together in relative harmony didn't they.