rights of "nationality" of which Avnery speaks are somewhat different under Israeli law and Arab citizens often find themselves in a different category from other Israeli citizens.
9. This group of "American fundamentalist evangelists" refers most specifically to "millennial dispensationalists," who believe that the Jews must inhabit Israel in order for Armageddon to occur. At that time, those few Jews who convert to Christianity will be saved with those "born again," while the vast majority of Jews, as well as those of all other religions, will be eradicated prior to the "rapture" in which the born-again Christians will be transported directly to heaven.
10. Nonetheless, Herzl was the founder of Zionism. It should be noted that, as were many early Zionists, Herzl was a Jew culturally more than religiously. Like many of his contemporaries, he tended toward the widespread latenineteenth-century ideas of atheism and nationalism. Many Zionists among the early leaders of Israel came from the same tradition.
11. It should be noted that though many other countries practice many forms of discrimination, no other country with Israel's power and resources has practiced the same kind of ethnic cleansing, at the same intensity, for as many decades, while still commanding much of the world's sympathy. It is a unique situation.
12. In the United States, the situation is quite different. Very little coverage of Palestinian issues is aired, and Palestinians are generally seen as terrorists.
13. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a long-discredited book of Russian propaganda accusing worldwide Jewry of comprising a controlling cabal. The book is dragged out of obscurity from time to time by people who do not have command of the facts or who wish to use it for propaganda.
14. Originally published in Ma'ariv.
15. Originally published in the International Herald Tribune.
16. The kibbutzim were collectively owned, agriculturally oriented communities; the moshavim were similar, but comprised individually owned plots as part of a cooperative union.
17. "The iron wall: we and the Arabs" was the name of an article published by Jabotinsky in 1923 that laid out early ideas that the Zionists must construct an "iron wall" of a strong Jewish nation state in order to realize their vision. Jabotinsky is often cited by voices in defense of the "Separation Wall"; however Jabotinsky, knowing Palestinians would not cede their land, was in favor of full civil rights for the Arab inhabitants of the envisioned Jewish state. For the full text of Jabotinsky's article see http://www.marxists.de/middleast/
ironwall/ironwall.htm
18. The first major Palestinian reaction to Zionist immigration to Palestine under the auspices of the British mandate. See Ted Swedenburg, Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past, University of Arkansas Press, 2003 (2nd edn).
19. Huntington's theory was originally proposed in a Foreign Affairs (Summer, 1993) article, then expanded in The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Simon and Schuster, 1996.
20. This essay comprises Avnery's opening remarks from a May 8, 2007 Tel Aviv debate with Israeli "new historian" Ilan Pappe, who argued in favor of one state.
21. For an informed and interesting discussion of the design and intent of