Let me refresh your memory with what Roosevelt had said about the conduct of his armies. “No other conquering or colonizing nation has ever treated savage owners of the soil with such generosity as has the United States.”

Roosevelt’s words echoed, just a few months ago, by the Israeli army Jenin commander, General Didi.

The Israeli army has behaved as “as the most moral army in the world and the most careful army in the world.”

Please allow me to shift the course of my thoughts to finish with these great words from the 1927 Grand Council of American Indians: “We want freedom from the white man rather than to be integrated. We don't want any part of the establishment, we want to be free to raise our children in our religion, in our ways, to be able to hunt and fish and live in peace. We want to be ourselves. We want to have our heritage, because we are the owners of this land and because we belong here.

“The white man says, there is freedom and justice for all. We have had their "freedom and justice," and that is why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not forget this."

Similar are the sentiments of Abdelrazik Abu al-Hayjah, the Palestinian Administrator of the Jenin refugee camp, who concluded his testimony for the book “Searching Jenin”: “If they will destroy the camp many times, the people of Jenin will rebuild it, because with every time the peoples’ courage and determination intensify. The more Israel brutalizes Palestinians, the stronger their resistance shall be. Israel cannot resolve its problems by force. They have to understand that Palestinians’ quest for freedom cannot be stopped. Its only human nature for people to resist, to regain their freedom.