Eventually the Arab states will rise against Israel. They don't like Palestinians but they hate the Jews more. It won't be like 1967. The rest of the world will see by then what Israel does to us. They won't help when Egypt and Syria attack. Even Jordan. Israel will cease to exist. [Avner stares at him in disbelief] What?
Avner
This is a dream. You can't take back a country you never had.
You sound like a Jew.
Avner
**** you. I'm the voice inside your head telling you what you already know. You people have nothing to bargain with. You'll never get the land back. You'll die old men in refugee camps waiting for Palestine.
We have a lot of children. They'll have children. So we can wait forever, and if we need to, we can make the whole planet unsafe for Jews.
Avner
You kill Jews and the world feels bad for them, and thinks you animals.
Yes. But then the world will see how they've made us into animals. They'll start to ask questions about the conditions in our cages.
Avner
You are Arabs. There are lots of places for Arabs.
You're a Jew sympathizer. All you Germans, you're too soft on Israel. Well, you give us money, but you feel guilty about Hitler, and the Jews exploit that guilt. My father didn't gas any Jews.
Avner
Tell me something, Ali.
What?
Avner
Do you really miss your father's olive trees? Do you honestly think you have to get back all that, that nothing? That chalky soil and stone huts? Is that what you really want for your children?
It absolutely is. It will take a hundred years, but we'll win. How long did it take the Jews to get their own country? How long did it take the Germans to make Germany?
Avner
And look how well that worked out.
You don't know what it is not to have a home. That's why you European Reds don't get it. You say, "It's nothing," but you have a home to come back to. ETA, ANC, IRA... We all pretend we care about your international revolution, but we don't care. We want to be nations. Home is everything.
