© AFPAn Israeli soldier detains a Palestinian man following a weekly protest against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel, Kfar Qaddum, West Bank, August 23, 2019.
This is what the editor of Haaretz's Culture and Literature supplement, Benny Ziffer, wrote on his Facebook page upon returning from paying a condolence call in the settlement of Ofra: "En route I looked at the Palestinian villages alongside the Jewish communities, and I thought of how for the Palestinians murder is a type of sport or enjoyment, perhaps a substitute for erotica. From that perspective we will never have anything culturally in common with them."
And if that weren't enough,
Ziffer also wrote, "Regarding this evil and undignified people living among us, we can only yearn for the land to vomit it out, because it isn't worthy of this land, which is full of Jewish blood that it has spilled."
His post generated no comment. Ziffer has apparently exhausted his allotted attention. By contrast,
Yaron London succeeded in raising a bigger momentary storm with less serious remarks: "Arabs are savages ... they don't only hate Jews, they kill their own first and foremost."
More than one straight line connects London and Ziffer. Their comments reflect the spirit of the times in Israel.
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