…What’s important here is the sub rosa antisemitism, a hatred in Europe that since 1945 can no longer appear in public without a disguise. This business of moral equivalence between Jews and Arabs here is more antisemitism undercover. The moral equivalence denies the blatant guilt of the Arabs for their barbaric behavior, in this case, teaching murderous hatred to their kids and even demonstrating how to kill Jews. It sees the Jews as guilty of aggression against the Balestinians which then mitigates their guilt. It diminishes the sheer naked, evil hatred by Arabs for Jews, and simultaneously points of the finger of guilt at us.

Indeed, the entirety of the fantasy of a Palestinian nation was the invention of a parallel people to the Jewish people with parallel equal rights to what the Jews claim is theirs by right with the agreement of the League of Nations after World War I.

The arguments in favor of the movement of renewal by the Jews, Zionism — at that point a half-century long — were decisive, for the Arabs had no counter claims to Palestine. They never even heard of the place. So over the next generation they dreamed up an ancient nation to stand up to the Jews and challenge their claims with identical claims of their own…