Не получив сторонней помощи, начал понемногу разбираться с вышеупомянутыми англоязычными источниками по палестинской тематике самостоятельно.

И в самом начале книги еще одного интеллектуала, Эдварда Вади Саида, "The Question of Palestine" встретил извлечение из интервью, данного известным израильским генералом, начальником Генштаба (1974-1978), имеющее, как мне лично кажется, самое непосредственное отношение также и к нынешним кровавым событиям:

Q — Is it true (during the March 1978 Israeli invasion of Lebanon] that you bombarded agglomerations (of people] without distinction?
A — I am not one of those people who have a selective memory. Do you think that I pretend not to know what we have done all these years? What did we do the entire length of the Suez Canal? A million and a half refugees! Really: where do you live? ... We bombarded Ismailia, Suez, Port Said, and Port Fuad. A million and a half refugees ... Since when has the population of South Lebanon become so sacred? They knew perfectly well what the terrorists were doing. After the massacre at Avivim, I had four villages in South Lebanon bombed without authorization.

Q — Without making distinctions between civilians and non civilians?
A-What distinction? What had the inhabitants of Irbid [a large town in northern Jordan, principally Palestinian in population] done to deserve bombing by us?

Q — But military communiques always spoke of returning fire and of counterstrikes against terrorist objectives.
A — Please be serious. Did you not know that the entire valley of the Jordan had been emptied of its inhabitants as a result of the war of attrition?

Q — Then you claim that the population ought to be punished?
A — Of course, and I have never had any doubt about that. When I authorized Yanouch (diminutive name of the commander of the northern front, responsible for the Lebanese operation] to use aviation, artillery and tanks [in the invasion], I knew exactly what I was doing. It has now been thirty years, from the time of our Independence War until now, that we have been fighting against the civilian (Arab] population which inhabited the villages and towns, and every time that we do it, the same question gets asked: should we or should we not strike at civilians? (Al-Hamishmar, May 10, 1978]

Посредством машинного переводчика предъявлю на русском языке только последнее откровение израильского генерала: вот уже тридцать лет, с момента начала Войны за независимость и до сегодняшнего дня, мы воюем против гражданского (арабского) населения, населяющего деревни и города, и каждый раз, когда мы это делаем, задается один и тот же вопрос: должны мы или не должны наносить удары по гражданскому населению?

Интересно, что сказал бы сегодня этот генерал, увидев, какие всходы дало его мужественное семя?..