…This academic philosopher also seems to have no serious knowledge of the Arabs. He is the one who cannot see them for who they are. It is as if he has never heard that they are given to telling tall tales. He has never heard, apparently, that the IDF and GSS long ago gave up using lie detectors with them, for they uniformly beat them; for they, I say, like Obama, are constantly lying. They are constantly defending themselves with a bodyguard of lies.

Ironically, it is such liberal types who more than Im Tirtzu types cannot see the Arabs for who they are they and the quality of their culture. Dr. Motzkin, head of the Van Leer Institute, shows no evidence of understanding that when the enemies talk of the Nakba, they are not fishing for sympathy for their suffering. Van Leer types see anti-Balestinians as coldhearted in their refusal to commiserate with the enemy over his suffering as a human being regardless of the circumstances. Motzkin does not see that when an Arab talks of the Nakba, he is accusing Jews of war crimes on a par with Nazi war crimes. By comparing the Nakba to the Holocaust, one compares the behavior of the Nazis to Jews with the behavior of Jews to the Ancient Ones…