to the narrative of the Arabs, are simply a bunch of robbers, who for some reason have decided to steal the Land of Israel from its Arab inhabitants.

As he looks at the past, Levy also ignores the fact that the Zionist leadership – in 1937, 1947 1978, 2000, 2007 and 2008 – agreed to a solution based on territorial compromise, while the Palestinian leadership – under Haj Amin al-Husseini and Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas – consistently rejected any compromise proposed by the British, the United Nations and the governments of Israel (as long as Abbas refuses to accept the formula of “two states for two peoples,” and deceptively says that he does indeed support “two states” without mentioning “two peoples” – the difference between the current Palestiniansecurity service and the Israel Police), on imprisonment and exiling opponents, as well as – here and there – the killing of opponents of the occupation (whom our leaders call “terrorists,” although in recent years most of the opponents have aimed their knives at settlers and soldiers or police). But "a military dictatorship, one of the cruelest in the world?”

Has Levy never heard about the deeds of the neighboring regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad? Or our slightly further-flung neighbors, the ayatollahs in Tehran (or regimes in a large number of countries in Africa and Asia)?

It is true that in the West, there are no peoples ruling over other peoples, and such control is perceived, rightly, as immoral. But a civilized journalist also needs, on the other hand,