Munich - Conflict and Despair Over Palestinian Identity
Ali: [[w:Six Day War|1967; Avner stares at him in disbelief]
Eventually the Arab states will rise against Israel. They don't like Palestinians but they hate the Jews more. It won't be like ]. The rest of the world will see by then what Israel does to us. They won't help when Egypt and Syria attack. Even Jordan. Israel will cease to exist. What?
Avner:
This is a dream. You can't take back a country you never had.
Ali:
You sound like a Jew.
Avner:
Fuck you. I'm the voice inside your head telling you what you already know. You people have nothing to bargain with. You'll never get the land back. You'll die old men in refugee camps waiting for Palestine.
Ali:
We have a lot of children. They'll have children. So we can wait forever, and if we need to, we can make the whole planet unsafe for Jews.
Avner:
You kill Jews and the world feels bad for them, and thinks you animals.
Ali:
Yes. But then the world will see how they've made us into animals. They'll start to ask questions about the conditions in our cages.
Avner:
You are Arabs. There are lots of places for Arabs.
Ali: [scoffs; [Hitler; [w:The Holocaust| didn't gas any Jews]
You're a Jew sympathizer. All you Germans, you're too soft on Israel. Well, you give us money, but you feel guilty about ], and the Jews exploit that guilt. My father ].
Avner:
Tell me something, Ali.
Ali:
What?
Avner:
Do you really miss your father's olive trees? Do you honestly think you have to get back all that, that nothing? That chalky soil and stone huts? Is that what you really want for your children?
Ali:
It absolutely is. It will take a hundred years, but we'll win. How long did it take the Jews to get their own country? How long did it take the Germans to make Germany?
Avner:
And look how well that worked out.
Ali: [[w:ETA (seperatist group)|ETA; [w:African National Congress|ANC; [w:Irish Republican Army|IRA]
You don't know what it is not to have a home. That's why you European Reds don't get it. You say, "It's nothing," but you have a home to come back to. ], ], ]... We all pretend we care about your international revolution, but we don't care. We want to be nations. Home is everything.
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