I know. I can’t stop talking about Dan Ephron’s book. 

On page 145 he asks, referring to the Oslo Peace Accords: “was it genuinely ending its role over the Palestinians or merely repositioning its occupation?”  Dan also talks about (pg 134) how Yigal Amir positioned the Holocaust as the moral anchor or provider of “moral underpinnings of the Jewish State.” It’s easy to confuse the “why we need a homeland,” and what we do with it once we’ve got it…