And when it’s all over,
my dear, dear reader,
on which benches will we have to sit,
those of us who shouted “Death to the Arabs!”
and those who claimed they “didn’t know”?
-- Nostalgia (2002), by Aharon Shabtai
Photo: The
wall separating the Jewish settlement of Gilo from the adjacent Palestinian village of Beit Jala. On the Israeli side, the wall is painted with the view as it would be if there were no
Palestinians and no Beit Jala. (Photo Simon Norfolk).
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Related:
"Death to the Arabs!" - Hebrew graffiti on a mosque in Jaffa. (Haaretz)
"Death to the Arabs" - Hebrew graffiti on a Christian grave in Bethlehem. (jacobrask).
"Death to the Arabs!" - Hebrew graffiti in an Israeli high school in Ramat Aviv. (mynet.il)
"Death to the Arabs!" - A Palestinian woman sits in front of Hebrew graffiti that reads "Death to the Arabs" in Jerusalem's Old City. (Daylife/Getty Images)
"Death to the Arabs!" - Graffiti left by Israeli soldiers of the IDF's Givati Brigade in a Palestinian house they occupied during the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, Dec 2008-Jan 2009. (YNet)
"Death to the Arabs!" - Hebrew graffiti on an abandoned Palestinian store in Hebron. (Tom Spender)
"Death to the Arabs!" - Right-wing religious Zionists celebrate Jerusalem Day by marching through the Arab Quarter of the Old City, chanting "Death to the Arabs". (photos and video here).
"Death to the Arabs!" - Graffiti sprayed by settlers on a Palestinian ambulance in Dir Astiyeh, Salfit District, the central West Bank. Photo: Ra’aed Moqdi, B'Tselem, 4 December 2008.
"Death to the Arabs!" - Hebrew graffiti at a Palestinian bus stop in the West Bank. (Anna Balzer)
"Death to the Arabs!" - Hebrew graffiti at Oush Grab in the West Bank. (Eliz_al-ajnabiyya)
"Death to the Arabs!" - Palestinian women look through a gate where right-wing settlers have painted the Hebrew words 'Death to Arabs' in the West Bank town of Hebron. (David Silverman/Getty)
"Death to the Arabs!" - Hebrew graffiti on police station in Lachish, Israel. (Ashdod News)
"Death to the Arabs!" - Hebrew graffiti on a wall in Jaffa, Oct 2008. (nrg.il)
"Death to the Arabs!" - A Palestinian man points at a graffiti covered wall in a home commandeered by Israeli soldiers during the recent Gaza offensive, in Gaza City, Monday, March 23, 2009. The Hebrew graffiti reads 'Death to the Arabs,' top left, 'Long live the Jewish people', center, 'The eternal people has no fear', bottom right, and 'Shaked', a name referring to an army battalion. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
"Death to the Arabs!" - Hebrew graffiti on a Palestinian kindergarten in Tel Rumeida, Hebron. (indymedia ireland)
"Death to the Arabs!" - Russian graffiti near Bethlehem, West Bank, 2002. (begemot)
"Kill Arabs!" - Settler graffiti on a Palestinian house in Hebron (BBC News)
"No Arabs!" - Hebrew graffiti at Oush Grab in the West Bank (Decolonizing Architecture)
"No Arabs!" - Bumper stickers in Jerusalem (imemc)
"No Gazans!" - An Israeli man walks past a wall with graffiti reading in Hebrew "No Gazans no rockets", in the southern Israeli town of Sderot, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
"Exterminate the Muslims!" - Settler graffiti on a Palestinian house in Hebron (Christian Peacemaker Teams)
"Kill all Arabs!" - Settler graffiti on a Palestinian house in Hebron (Christian Peacemaker Teams)
"Kill Arabs!" - Settler graffiti on a Palestinian house in Hebron (Christian Peacemaker Teams)
"Gas the Arabs!" - Settler graffiti on Abraham's Well, in Hebron (Christian Peacemaker Teams)
"Arabs to the gas chambers!" - Settler graffiti on Abraham's Well, in Hebron (Christian Peacemaker Teams)
"Arabs to the crematoria!" - Hebrew graffiti on a wall in Hebron. (Shabtai Gold, for Haaretz)
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