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I know. I've been there. I was taught how to do this, back in the mid-1980's. I did and witnessed as a matter of fact, deeds that I'm ashamed to remember to this day. And fortunately for me, I did not have to witness or do anything truly "pornographic," as some friends of mine experienced.
我知道真相，因為我去過那里。早在20世紀80年代中期，他們就教我怎么做這件事。實際上，我不僅親眼見到，而且還親自做了直到今天我一想起來還感到可恥的行為。我還算運氣好的，沒有像我有些朋友那樣目睹或親身參與真正“下流”的事情。
Since 1987, this cruel, impossible, unnatural, insulting reality in the Territories has been exploding in our face. But because of our unshakable belief that the Palestinians are monsters who want to throw us into the sea, we reacted by trying to maintain what we've created at all costs. When a fledgling and hesitating peace process tried to work its way through this mess, one major factor (perhaps THE factor) that undermined it and voided its meaning was our establishment's endless fear and suspicion of The Other. To resolve this fear and suspicion, we chose the insane route of demanding full control of The Other throughout the process. When The Other felt cheated out of his freedom, violence erupted again, and all our ancient instincts woke up. There they are, we said in relief, now we see their true face again. The Arabs want to throw us into the sea. There's no one to talk with ("no partner" in our beloved ex-prime minister's words) and they understand only force. And so we responded as we know and love, with more and more and more force. This time, the effect was that of putting out a fire with a barrel of gasoline. And that's the moment when I said to myself, "No, I'm not playing this game anymore."
自1987年以來，在占領區里，一系列殘酷的、讓人難以置信的、違背常理的、侮辱性的事情在我們面前不斷發生。但是因為我們堅信巴勒斯坦人都是想把我們扔進海里的魔鬼，所以我們不惜一切代價地維持我們創造的一切。那時，解決這一混亂的和平進程剛剛起步，正躊躇發展，但很快被破壞，變得毫無意義。這當中的一個主要原因（也許是唯一原因）在于我們的當權派對于“他人”永無休止的恐懼和懷疑。為了消除這種恐懼和懷疑，我們選擇了那條愚蠢透頂的出路，要求在整個和平進程中保持對對方的完全控制。當對方感到他的自由被騙走時，暴力沖突就再次爆發了，而我們所有古老的本能也就蘇醒過來。他們就是這個樣子，我們如釋重負地說，現在我們又一次看到他們的真面目了。阿拉伯人想把我們扔進大海。我們沒有可談判的對象(按我們親愛的前任首相的話來說就是“沒有合作伙伴”），他們只懂得暴力。因此我們以自己所熟知和鐘愛的方式用非常非常非常多的暴力對此事進行了回應。 這一次，產生的效果就如同火上澆油。我就是在那個時候對自己說:“不干了。我再也不玩這個游戲了。”
