Alami told me the following: “I choose that the land would be desolate and poor even for a hundred more years, until us Arabs will be able to develop it ourselves.”

you were the rest of the country, how would you feel? Yeah. Not great.

We don’t believe in PC in Israel. We believe in being straight up, or, as my dad used to say, the “Tachles department.”

“The sooner the Jews farm it all the better: Their colonies are bright spots in a desert.”

Remember the status of the West Bank before the Six Day War? These lands were never recognized by the international community as officially part of any other country, so technically speaking they are not occupied by anyone, and were not captured from anyone.

created a standard to separate legitimate criticism of Israeli policies from antisemitism, and this framework was adopted by the US Department of State in 2010. It is called the 3D test: Delegitimize, Demonize, Double Standard.

While UNHCR is constantly working on getting the global number of refugees down, with UNRWA the numbers go up, up, up. After the 1948 war, there were approximately 700,000 displaced people. Now UNRWA has 5.6 million “refugees” registered in their books. How is that possible?

Israel’s PR problems were about to turn into an existential threat.

The peace camp had no plan B. We put all our chips on Arafat being the elected representative of the Palestinian people and that he would do the right thing for his and our people and for the future of the world. What a mistake.