The hatred of Palestinians is not a recent phenomenon. Two years ago, the Israeli novelist Eyal Megged, writing in Haaretz, quoted from the famous eulogy that one of the founding fathers of Israel, general of the IDF and eventual Minister of Defense, Moshe Dayan, delivered for a murdered Israeli soldier on the Gaza border in 1956: "Let us not today fling accusations at the murderers. What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred for us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their very eyes we turn into our homesteads the land and villages in which they and their forefathers lived. We should demand blood (for the fallen soldier) not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves."