I hear too many familiar sounds today, sounds which are being amplified by the war. I hear "dirty Arabs" and I remember "dirty Jews." I hear about "closed areas" and I remember ghettos and camps. I hear "two-legged beasts"* and I remember...

Menachem Begin's statement in the Knesset, widely quoted in Israel and Europe since, interpreted as s description of Palestinians as "two-legged beasts." The government of Israel protested that this is a misinterpretation, and that begin's "description is applicable to whosoever sinks to such moral depths that by killing or threatening a Jewish child, he proves himself bereft of any semblance of humanity"