Year ago, Hebrew University sociologist Baruch Kimmerling observed that "What we feared has cometrue." Jews and Palestinians are "regressing to superstitious tribalism... War appears anunavoidable fate," an "evil colonial" war. After Israel's invasion of the refugee camps thisyear his colleague Ze'ev Sternhell wrote that "In colonial Israel...human life is cheap." Theleadership is "no longer ashamed to speak of war when what they are really engaged in is colonialpolicing, which recalls the takeover by the white police of the poor neighborhoods of the blacks in SouthAfrica during the apartheid era." Both stress the obvious: there is no symmetry between the"ethno-national groups" regressing to tribalism. The conflict is centered in territories that havebeen under harsh military occupation for 35 years. The conqueror is a major military power, acting withmassive military, economic and diplomatic support from the global superpower. Its subjects are alone anddefenseless, many barely surviving in miserable camps, currently suffering even more brutal terror of a kindfamiliar in "evil colonial wars" and now carrying out terrible atrocities of their own in revenge.