THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER WE MUST RISE FROM ITS ASHES

followed the war? If not, how did he know so early, in the very first days of the newIsraeli history, to predict the following:The dilemma of whether to hold on to the territories or to evacuatethem is not directly related to the problem of peace and security . . .We are destined to live a long period in a state of perpetual war . . .The inclusion of one and a half million Arabs within Jewish jurisdictionmeans undermining the human and Jewish essence of the state and thedestruction of the social-economic order that we established ...Thedestruction of the Jewish people and the corruption of the human inIsrael . . . In the greater land of Israel [there] will not be a Jewishworker or a Jewish farmer. The Arabs will be the working people, andwe will become a people of managers, supervisors, officials andpolicemen, and especially undercover policemen. That state willnecessarily be a police state, and its central institution will be theGeneral Security Services . . . This will surely influence the entirespiritual and moral atmosphere in the state and in society; it will poisoneducation . . . And all this is in the Jewish sector of the state. In theArab sectors the Israeli government will build concentration campsand gallows. This will be a state that is not worthy of being and willnot be worth to let exist. 8When I am forced to listen to the news, usually while I’m driving, I must overcomethe urge to stop and spray-paint a huge graffiti sign that says “Leibowich was Right.”Yeshayahu Leibowich had not heard of “targeted prevention,” so he wrote ofgallows. He did not know then that in the prison camp in Ktziot tens of thousandswould be imprisoned, vile criminals alongside innocents. He did not read AmnestyInternational’s reports that were later rejected without debate, under the pretext thatthe whole world is against us.We ignore the facts because it is too difficult to know them, we do not read and donot know anything of the reality of our lives. We build a huge network of roadsthrough the occupied territories to act as reality bypasses that spare us the need toface the ugliness of discrimination and humiliation. We turn a blind eye, and disregard.Leibowich, unlike us, did not imagine less than a year after the Six-Day War that themass detention centers would become hothouses of hate and schools for terror and