Morris described Palestinians as “barbarians who want to take our lives.” There was but one way to constrain the threat: “Something like a cage has to be built for them…. There is a wild animal there that has to be locked up in one way or another.” Pushed to reflect on the fate of those to be “locked up,” Morris could barely muster a shrug. Instead, Morris approvingly invoked a genocide. “Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians.”
