When the Israeli army tanks and gun-ships blasted defenceless Bethlehem, Hockstader wrote: “In the Biblical (he would not mention ‘Nativity’, would he?) town of Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers and Palestinians fought with tanks, missiles, helicopters, machineguns and stones 1 “. I suspect that Hockstader’s history of WWII would narrate a tale where the US and Japan fought with nuclear bombs. In the genetic labs of Tel Aviv, the researchers of the ‘Jewish DNA’ proudly parade every result that tenuously confirms the blood-relation of Jews and Palestinians. They know that our Jewish claim to the proud name of Israel is at least dubious. Like Richard III, we seized the title and the crown, and, like Richard III, we feel insecure while the legitimate heirs are still alive. That is the psychological explanation of our inexplicably cruel treatment of the native Palestinians.

The Israelis want to be Palestinians. We adopted their cuisine and serve their falafel and
hummus as our own ethnic food. We adopted the native cactus, sabra, growing at the site of
their ruined villages, as the name of our local-born sons and daughters. Our modern Hebrew
language came to life with hundreds of Palestinian words. We just need to ask their forgiveness,
embrace them as long lost brothers and learn from them. That is the one ray of hope coming out
of the present darkness.

Sharon has surpassed Hitler: the German dictator carefully avoided giving the public orders
to kill Jews, while the Jewish ruler unabashedly called for the killing of the Goyim on prime-time
television. Many Germans were disgusted by the Nazis and ‘crossed the lines’, and served
in the Allied armies against the Third Reich, while the Jews still hesitate to break the bond of
false loyalty to their Third Malkuth.

For generations, the Tomb of Joseph was cherished and attended by the people of Nablus,
but it was seized by the Israelis in 1975. The infamous Oslo accords left it as an armed Israeli
enclave in the heart of the Palestinian city. It became the Yeshiva of a Cabbalist sect led by
Rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburg. His name may ring a bell. He stated in an interview with Jewish Week
that a Jew is entitled to cut off the liver of a Gentile in order to save his own life, as the life of a
Jew is incomparably more precious than the life of a Gentile. He was asked by the interviewer to
soften his message, but he remained adamant. Many Israeli papers reproduced this interview, for
the name ‘Ginzburg’ was fairly well known.

A year earlier, Ginzburg’s disciples made a sortie to a neighbouring Palestinian village, and
a sect member murdered a thirteen-year-old girl. He was arrested and brought to trial. Ginzburg
was called as a witness for the defence, and under oath proclaimed that a Jew should not be tried
for killing a Gentile, as the commandment ‘Thou shall not murder’ refers only to Jews. Killing a
Gentile is, at worst, a misdemeanour, said he, as “one can not compare the blood of Jews and the
blood of Gentiles”. Uncomfortable though that is, he had voiced the standard interpretation of
Halachah, the Jewish Law.