This short chapter must be read in its entirety to be appreciated.
"My agitated mind revived the memory of the death of a relative soon after the occupation. He had been driving alone near the Latrun salient, close to the border with Israel. He was stopped by an army jeep and killed. The soldiers took his black-and-white-checked keffiyeh, dipped it in petrol from his car and set his corpse on fire. A few days later his burnt remains were found by a shepherd." (pp. 175-176)
"The Israelis have been inflexible, allowed to get away with their crimes because of the sympathy felt towards them because of the Holocaust. But this emotional dispensation would eventually run its course." (p. 177)
Israel is also supported for strategic reasons, which cannot last indefinitely.
Once, in a discussion about Israel in a magazine letter column, I argued that all states should be secular and was accused of advocating an Islamic state. The argumentative principle here is: if you dislike what someone says, then denigrate it whatever way you can, even at the expense of forgetting the content of what was in fact said.
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