The wars against the Palestinians and their Arab allies were a kind of theater in which “weak Jews” who went “like lambs to slaughter” were supplanted by Israelis who would “fight back.” Thus a redemption of a different kind was affected: By routing the savage “Arab,” by murdering his leaders, by confining him to the Bantustans of Tuba, or the reservations of Gaza, or the ghettoes of Lydd, Jewish national honor was restored in the traditional manner of Western European powers.
