But the message for the Israeli viewer and listener was unequivocal: this was a huge Israelivictory. The whole world now understands that in this story we are the victims, that the Palestinians areterrorists, that the Wall is needed to save our lives, that "the lives of Jews are more important thanthe quality of life of the Palestinians" – a sentence repeated dozens of times during the day. Aphalanx of army officers, Security Service personnel, reporters, commentators and professors talked theirheads off on all stations, and all of them said exactly the same thing: we are being attacked, we are thepersecuted, the Arabs are killers, we are defending ourselves. The occupation was not mentioned at all. Whyshould it be? What has it got to do with this?