"Israeli historian Benny Morris...sees Palestinians -- and to a degree, all Arabs and Iranians, too -- as a species of animals not yet inducted into full humanity. Thus in a well-known interview with Ari Shavit, published in Haaretz on January 5, 2004, Morris described the Israeli problem with the Palestinians:

"Something like a cage has to be built for them. I know that sounds terrible. It is really cruel. But there is no choice. There is a wild animal there that has to be locked up in one way or another."

In the years since Benny Morris spoke those words, the construction of the Israeli wall in the West Bank, and the blockade of Gaza by land, sea, and air have created the cage he believed was necessary."

-- David Bromwich

Mr. Morris was merely restating the tradititional Zionist position of the past century, and there is no excuse for "liberals" who feign surprise or ignorance of that policy while giving the Jewish State their tacit support.

After all, it was 85 years ago when Zionist militant Zeev Jabotinsky, the godfather of today's World Likud movement, wrote "The Iron Wall" describing this policy. And it was centuries ago when the Talmudist rabbis reduced all non-Jews to sub-human status, as taught today in Zionist yeshivas like Mercaz HaRav.

Small wonder that Morris "writes as a man in possession of a racial and religious knowledge that is superior to evidence", as Bromwich puts it. It is their tradition.

UPDATE: Here's another excellent commentary on the apocalyptic rantings of Benny Morris.