The injustice done to the Palestinians, the dispossession, the massacres, not only the loss of that part of Palestine which became Israel--and is internationally recognized as such--but also the occupation of the remainder of the Mandate territory and the bloody suppression of any and all manifestation of Palestinian resistance: all this had to take second place to Israel's security and the civilized values and democracy for which Israel was widely promoted. Her army, which often behaved with cruelty and indiscipline, was to be regarded as an exemplar of "purity of arms" and those of us who witnessed Israel's killing of civilians were to be abused as liars, anti-Semites or friends of "terrorism"...Report the wanton use of violence by Palestinians--aircraft hijackings, attacks on illegal Jewish settlements and then, inevitably, suicide bombings on the innocent, the executioner with explosives strapped to his or her body--and that was "terror" pure and simple, dangerously present but comfortably isolated from reason, cause or history.