On a recent interview in the Israeli newspaper Maariv, Ami Ayalon, the former head of the Israeli intelligence organisation Shabak, stated that if he were Palestinian, he would have fought those who stole his land “without limits”.
“As far as the Palestinians are concerned, they lost their land, which is why when people ask me, what would you do if you were Palestinian? I say that if someone came and stole my land, the land of Israel, I would fight him without limits”, he added.
The Palestinians, Ayalon affirmed, “see themselves as a people. One of our tragedies is that we see them as individuals, some of whom are good, while others are bad.”
In the flurry of Israeli and pro-Israel denunciations of Palestinians as barbarians, antisemites, pogromists, terrorists, savages, and human animals, among other such racist epithets that a slew of Israeli leaders have called them for the benefit of propaganda, many of Israel’s most prominent leaders, like Ayalon, have always identified with the Palestinian struggle and would admit publicly that if they were Palestinian and not Jewish colonists, they would have readily joined the struggle against Zionists and Israel……more
