Authoring Israel’s chronicle

History is a funny thing. It is like a piece of clay that changes shape depending on the hands that hold it. After a war, it is generally first picked up by the ones who won. They like to tell tales of heroes and bravery. Those who lost will see things quite differently, yet generally do not have a voice. In the documentary The Fog of War (2004), former US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara claimed that had the US not won WWII, the country would have been prosecuted for war crimes, because of the massive bombing campaign on Japanese cities. On May 15 the world commemorated 60 years of Israel and 60 years of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe). These are of course twin events, intertwined like a Gordian knot, yet when speaking to the Knesset on Israel’s latest anniversary, US President George W. Bush proved hopelessly one-sided in his