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'The country that wouldn't grow up'
Den amerikanske akademiker Tony Judt mener, at Seksdageskrigen i 1967 og den påfølgende erobring af bl.a. Vestbredden og Gaza var Israels egen nakba, palæstinensernes ord for den katastrofe i form af etnisk udrensning og massakrer, der banede vejen for skabelsen af staten Israel - i det israelske tilfælde en moralsk og politisk katastrofe, der lægger gift ud for enhver legitimitet eller moralsk ret, Israel tidligere kunne gøre krav på.
Således skrev han 2. maj i den israelske avis Ha'aretz:
Dead Israelis - like the occasional assassinated white South African in the apartheid era, or British colonists hacked to death by native insurgents - are typically perceived abroad not as the victims of terrorism but as the collateral damage of their own government's mistaken policies.Go read - artiklen er tankevækkende og helt bestemt værd at læse i sin helhed.
Such comparisons are lethal to Israel's moral credibility. They strike at what was once its strongest suit: the claim of being a vulnerable island of democracy and decency in a sea of authoritarianism and cruelty; an oasis of rights and freedoms surrounded by a desert of repression. But democrats don't fence into Bantustans helpless people whose land they have conquered, and free men don't ignore international law and steal other men's homes.